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Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam (1 August 1745 – 4 February 1816) was an Irish Viscount in the FitzWilliam family who was a benefactor and musical antiquarian. He founded the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, with a bequest of his library and art collection on his death in 1816. He was also a significant developer of his time in Dublin, Ireland. == Biography == Richard FitzWilliam was baptised on 22 August 1745. He was the eldest son of Richard FitzWilliam, 6th Viscount FitzWilliam, and his wife Catherine Decker, daughter of Sir Matthew Decker, 1st Baronet, a wealthy Dutch-born merchant. He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, receiving an MA in 1764. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1789 and elected the second Member of Parliament for Wilton in Wiltshire from 1790 to 1806 when it still had two representatives. He succeeded to his father's title in 1776. He developed part of southeast Dublin in the Georgian style. This included: * An Act to enclose the centre of Merrion Square in 1791; * The design of Fitzwilliam Square from 1789, laid out in 1792; * A new Roman Catholic church at Booterstown in 1812 called the Church of the Assumption; * An Act to enclose the centre of Fitzwilliam Square in 1813. Richard FitzWilliam mainly lived in Richmond near London, where his mother had inherited the estates of her father Sir Matthew Decker, but he made frequent visits to Mount Merrion House, south of Dublin. He left his large Irish estates to his first cousin's son, the 11th Earl of Pembroke, and his art collection and library to the University of Cambridge, together with funds to house them; this formed the Fitzwilliam Museum.〔("Publishing Music from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge" ), ''Journal of the Royal Musical Association'', 130.1 (2005) 38-73〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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