{{Short description|Irish baronet and politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Sir Riggs Falkiner, 1st Baronet''' (c. 1712 – 24 April 1797)<ref name = Rayment/> was an Irish baronet and politician.

He was the oldest son of Caleb Falkiner, a merchant of Cork city, and his wife Ruth Riggs, daughter of Edward Riggs of Riggsdale.<ref name = thePeerage/> He was a cousin of the politician Daniel Falkiner,<ref>{{cite book | last = Burke | first = John | editor = John Bernhard Burke | title = A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland | publisher = Scott, Webster, and Geary | location = London | edition = 2nd | year = 1841 | pages = 191 }}</ref> and on his mother's side of the writer Anna, Lady Miller, née Riggs. He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Clonakilty from 1768 to 1776 and subsequently for Castlemartyr to 1783.<ref name = Rayment>{{cite web | url = http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080607022535/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm | archive-date = June 7, 2008 | title = Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800 | url-status = usurped | accessdate = 16 April 2008 }}</ref> On 24 August 1778, he was created a '''baronet''', of Anne Mount, in the County of Cork.<ref>{{ London Gazette | issue = 11889 |page=1 | date = 4 July 1778 }}</ref>

On 5 January 1737, Falkiner married firstly Mary Barker.<ref name = thePeerage>{{cite web | url = http://thepeerage.com/p28542.htm#i285415 | title = ThePeerage - Sir Riggs Falkiner, 1st Bt | accessdate = 16 April 2009 }}</ref> She died in 1762, and Falkiner married secondly Anne Maturin, daughter of Reverend Gabriel James Maturin, in October 1764.<ref name = thePeerage/> He had four daughters and three sons by his first wife, and one daughter Sarah Anne by his second wife.<ref name = thePeerage/> Falkiner died in 1797 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only surviving son Samuel.<ref>{{cite book | last = Burke | first = John | title = A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire | publisher = Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley | location = London | volume = I | edition = 4th | year = 1832 | pages = 456 }}</ref> His daughter Elizabeth married Attiwell Wood, a prominent local barrister who, no doubt through a family arrangement, represented the same two constituencies as his father-in-law between 1769 and 1783. His youngest daughter, Sarah Anne, in 1784 married William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry, but died young in 1788, leaving two daughters.

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{{s-start}} {{s-par|ie}} {{s-bef| before = Henry Sheares <br /> Matthew Parker }} {{s-ttl| title = Member of Parliament for Clonakilty | with = Richard Longfield | years = 1768–1776 }} {{s-aft| after = Thomas Adderley <br /> Attiwell Wood }}

{{s-bef| before = John Bennett <br /> Attiwell Wood }} {{s-ttl| title = Member of Parliament for Castlemartyr | with = James Lysaght | years = 1776–1783 }} {{s-aft| after = John Bennett <br /> Broderick Chinnery }}

{{s-reg|ie-bt}} {{s-new|creation}} {{s-ttl| title = Baronet <br />'''(of Anne Mount)''' | years = 1778–1797 }} {{s-aft| after = Samuel Falkiner }} {{s-end}}

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