MYDDELTON, Richard (1726-95), of Chirk Castle, Denb.

Richard Myddelton was barely 21 when he succeeded his father but Henry Pelham gave him the most important offices in Denbighshire, pressing him to take the opportunity of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn’s death

to push for the county, and then you may bring in ... any good man you think proper for the town of Denbigh. A minority, the divisions and distresses of the Williams family, will probably open a door for your easy entrance.NLW Chirk Castle mss E. 613.

Myddelton, whose only ambition was an English peerage, preferred to leave the county to Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton and to hold the boroughs uncontested. Though his applications for a peerage were unsuccessful,Add. 32995, f. 260; 32917, ff. 387-8. he steadily adhered to Newcastle, who treated him as one of Lord Powis’s group. During his last twenty years in the House he hardly ever attended.

He died 2 Apr. 1795.