Sir Richard Newdigate, 3rd Baronet

On 17 June 1704 Newdigate was married to Elizabeth Twisden (1681–1765) at East Malling, Kent. Elizabeth was a daughter of Sir Roger Twisden, 2nd Baronet, MP for Rochester, and Margaret Marsham (a daughter of Sir John Marsham).^[3] Together, they were the parents of at least eleven children, including:^[9]

• Elizabeth Newdigate (1703–1769), who married Hon. John Chichester, second son of Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall and Lady Catherine Forbes (a daughter of the 1st Earl of Granard), in 1726.^[10]
• Richard Newdigate (1705–1706), who died young.^[11]
• John Newdigate (1707–1709), who died young.^[9]
• Mary Newdigate (1709–1744), who married Charles Palmer of Ladbroke Hall in 1733.^[12]
• Juliana Newdigate (1711–1780), who married John Bracebridge Ludford of Ansley Hall, in 1733.^[13]
• Sir Edward Newdigate, 4th Baronet (1716–1732), who was educated at Westminster School and University College, Oxford before his unexpected death.^[11]
• Sir Roger Newdigate, 5th Baronet (1719–1806), who married Sophia Conyers, daughter of Edward Conyers, in 1743. After her death, he married Hesther Margaret Munday, a daughter Edward Mundy of Shipley Hall and sister to Edward Miller Mundy, in 1776.^[14]

Sir Richard died at Arbury on 22 July 1727 and was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Harefield, of which his family was patron.^[15] He was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Edward.^[1] As Edward died without issue in 1732, the baronetcy passed to Richard's second son, Roger, who also died without issue in 1806 at which time the baronetcy became extinct. Arbury Hall and Harefield passed to Francis Parker of Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire, a distant cousin of the 5th Baronet, who then adopted the additional name of Newdigate. Francis moved into Arbury Hall and married Lady Barbara Maria Legge (a daughter of the 3rd Earl of Dartmouth), in 1820.^[14]

Through his daughter Juliana, he was a grandfather of John Newdigate Ludford, who married Elizabeth Boswell (parents of Elizabeth Juliana Bracebridge Ludford, wife of Sir John Newdigate-Ludford-Chetwode, 5th Baronet).^[13]

Through his daughter Elizabeth, he was a grandfather of Arthur Chichester, 5th Earl of Donegall (created 1st Marquess of Donegall in the Peerage of Ireland in 1791), who married Lady Anne Hamilton (a daughter of the 5th Duke of Hamilton).^[16]

• Howard, Joseph Jackson; Crisp, Frederick Arthur, eds. (1899). Visitation of England and Wales. Vol. 7. London: Priv. printed. p. 53.