Family:Richard Stacpoole and Elizabeth Tulloch (1)

excerpt from "An account of the de Stacpoole Family":

"Richard and Elizabeth had a large family. They moved to Rome where they lived in style and spent a fortune, said to be £40,000 [1827]. They helped to rebuild "St. Pauls without the Walls" and they also repaired the main bridge over the Tiber, as well as restoring the fountians, which had been out of action since Napoleonic times.

Richard was created a Viscount by Louis XVIII [1828], a Marquis by Leo XII and a Papal Duke [1830] by Gregory XVI. He died in 1848. He described himself in his will as Richard Fitzgeorge Stacpoole (no de) Duke de Stacpoole. The family kept the "de" (which had also been used in Anglo-Norman times) si as to be distinct from their cousins in Co. Clare and also to be able to avail themselves of their French titles when abroad.

It is recorded that Richard learnt his catechism and made his First confession in St. Patrick's Church Soho, where the family had a pew. Later he went up to Christ church Oxford, but there is no record regarding any University degree.

He never resided in Ireland, but he and his wife did a tour of the country which included a week's visit to Moniva Castle (where Robert French and Kathleen née Browne of Mount Hazel lived). The festivities in their honour and the magnificence of their family coach were still remembered when, nearly fifty years later George (4th Duke) married Pauline MacEvoy, grandniece of Kathleen Browne.

When Richard died in 1848 his assets in England were put down at £68,833 - 17 - 6. However he left so much to his friends, Captain and Mrs Graves, who had lived in his house Glasshayes (now a hotel) at Lyndhurst, that his widow Elizabeth hat to fight the will for the sake of the children and her own marriage settlement. A compromise ended the matter."

1. ↑ An account of the de Stacpoole Family.

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