William Richard Chetwynd (c.1731 – February 1765) was the son of John Chetwynd, 2nd Viscount Chetwynd

John Chetwynd, 2nd Viscount Chetwynd

John Chetwynd, 2nd Viscount Chetwynd , diplomat and politician, was the second son of John Chetwynd and the brother of Walter Chetwynd, 1st Viscount Chetwynd. He succeeded to that Irish peerage in 1736 by virtue of a special remainder....

. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Wollaston and was elected as Member of Parliament

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 for Stafford

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 in 1754 and held the seat until his death (before his father). He had a daughter Isabella, who married John Parsons, but the family estates at Ingestre

Ingestre

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 passed on his father's death to his sister Catherine and then to her son William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot

William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot

William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot PC , known as the Lord Talbot from 1737 to 1761, was a British politician....

, while his father's title as Viscount passed to William's uncle and namesake William Richard Chetwynd, 3rd Viscount Chetwynd.