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Richard Lovell Edgeworth
c. 1800
Born(1744-05-31)31 May 1744
Bath, England
Died13 June 1817(1817-06-13) (aged 73)
Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland
Alma materCorpus Christi College, Oxford; Trinity College, Dublin
Spouses
  • Anna Maria Elers (1743–1773) m. 1763
  • Honora Sneyd (1751–1780) m. 1773
  • Elizabeth Sneyd (1753–1797) m. 1780
  • Frances Ann Beaufort (1769–1865) m. 1798[1]
Children22, including
  • Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849)
  • William Edgeworth (1794–1829)
  • Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1812–1881)
Edgeworthstown House, Ireland
Library at Edgeworthstown House 1888
Edgeworth's proposed optical telegraph for use in Ireland. The rotational position of each one of the four indicators represented a number 1-7 (0 being "rest"), forming a four-digit number. The number stood for a particular word in a codebook.[2]

Richard Lovell Edgeworth (31 May 1744 – 13 June 1817) was an Anglo-Irish politician, writer and inventor. He had 22 children.

  1. ^ Butler 1972.
  2. ^ Rees, Abraham, ed. (1802–1820). "The Daily Telegraph". Cyclopædia. Vol. 35. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown. Unpaginated work: pages 9-11 of the article entry.

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