Richard Rigby

The Right Honourable Richard Rigby
Chief Secretary for Ireland
In office 1757–1761
Preceded by	Henry Seymour Conway
Succeeded by	William Gerard Hamilton

Richard Rigby PC (February 1722 – 8 April 1788), was an English civil servant and politician who sat in the British House of Commons for 43 years from 1745 to 1788. He served as Chief Secretary for Ireland and Paymaster of the Forces. Rigby accumulated a fortune serving the Crown and politician wheeler-dealers in the dynamic 18th-century parliament.