Sir Richard Levinge, 7th Baronet

Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge, 7th Baronet (1 November 1811 – 28 September 1884)[1] was an Irish landowner and politician from Knockdrin Castle, County Westmeath. He sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1857 to 1865.

His mother was a sister of the 2nd Baron Rancliffe, who died without issue in November 1850. Sir Richard inherited his uncle's entailed property, valued at between £1,000 and £2,000 per annum.[2] In 1846 he was commissioned as Lieutenant Colonel of the Westmeath Militia.[3] He was Sheriff of Westmeath in 1851–2,[4][5] and in 1853 was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of the county.[6]

At the 1852 general election, he contested the Westmeath constituency as a Conservative, without success.

Five years later, at the 1857 election,[7] he was returned unopposed for Westmeath as an Independent Opposition candidate.[8] That party collapsed in 1859, he was re-elected at the 1859 general election, [9] as a Liberal.[8]

He did not contest the 1865 election.[8] He was asked to stand again at the 1868 general election, but refused. He said that although he was a Liberal on all other points, he was a staunch Protestant, and opposed the Liberal policy of disestablishing the Church of Ireland.[10]

He died in Brussels on Sunday 28 September 1884, aged 73. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his brother Vere Henry Levinge, an officer in the Madras Civil Service.[11]