Richard (Huck) Huck-Saunders (1720 - 1785)

Born 1720 in Westmorland, England

Husband of Jane (Kinsey) Huck-Saunders — married 11 Mar 1777 in Spring Garden Chapel, Westminster, London, England

Descendants

Died 24 Jul 1785 at about age 65 in West Indies

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Biography

Richard (Huck) Huck-Saunders is Notable.

Dr. Richard Huck-Saunders was born Richard Huck in Westmorland. He served in the Army as a surgeon and received his MD degree from Marischal College, Aberdeen 13 Oct 1749. He was admitted to the Royal College of Physicians on the 1st of Apr 1765, elected fellow 18 Sep 1784, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1768.

In 1777 he married Jane Kinsey (d. 1780), niece and heir of Admiral Sir Charles Saunders and assumed the arms and name Saunders. They had two daughters Anne who married in Aug 1796 Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville and Jane, who married in 1800 as his 2nd wife John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland. ^[1]

Richard died 24 July 1785.

Sources

1. ↑ Marriage: "Westminster, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935"
   St Martin-In-The-Fields > 1774-1777
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Image (accessed 4 March 2023)
   Richard Huck Doctor.

• W. W. Webb,‘Saunders, Richard Huck- (1720–1785)’, rev. Jeffrey S. Reznick, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004

• Westminster, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935 (St Martin in the Fields, Westminster Richard Huck Dr of Physic of this parish and Jane Kinsey of the Parish of st Pancras were married in Spring Garden Chapel in this parish by special license of the Archbishop of Canterbury this 11th day of March 1777)

• Wikipedia: Richard Huck-Saunders

• England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858: "England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858"
  PROB 11: Will Registers > 1785-1788 > Piece 1133: Ducarel, Quire Numbers 417-468 (1785)
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Image (accessed 6 March 2023)