Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe

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"Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe PC (13 September 1764 – 26 September 1839), styled Viscount Valletort between 1789 and 1795, was a British politician and writer on music...

...Edgcumbe was the son of George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, and Emma, daughter of John Gilbert (archbishop of York). He gained the courtesy title Viscount Valletort when his father was made Earl of Mount Edgcumbe in 1789...

...Lord Mount Edgcumbe married Lady Sophia Hobart, daughter of John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, on 21 February 1789. They had five children:

• Lady Emma Sophia Edgcumbe (28 July 1791 – 28 January 1872), married John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow on 17 July 1828.
• Lady Caroline Anne Edgcumbe (22 October 1792 – 10 April 1824), married Ranald George Macdonald, 20th of Clanranald, in April 1812 and had issue.
• William Richard Edgcumbe, Viscount Valletort (19 November 1794 – 29 October 1818).
• Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, 3rd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (23 March 1797 – 3 September 1861).
• Hon. George Edgcumbe (28 June 1800 – 18 February 1885).

The Countess of Mount Edgcumbe died in August 1806. Lord Mount Edgcumbe remained a widower until his death in September 1839, aged 75."

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