BULKELEY, Richard, 4th Visct. Bulkeley [I] (1682-1724), of Baron Hill, Anglesey.

Lord Bulkeley, a member of the October Club, was the head of the Anglesey Tories, and controlled the borough of Beaumaris. An open Jacobite, he retired from Parliament at George I’s accession till 1722 when, ‘at the request of the gentlemen of this county ... though contrary to my inclinations’, he consented to stand again. Returned after a bitter contest,UCNW, Baron Hill mss 5561, 5566-8, 5614. he assisted his ally, Watkin Williams Wynn, in Denbighshire, where he is said to have taken part in burning the King’s picture.Yorke, Hardwicke i. 76.

He died 4 June 1724.