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Sir Richard Heron 1st Baronet (1726 – 18 January 1805) was a politician in the Kingdom of Ireland.He was the youngest son of Robert Heron of Newark-on-Trent Nottinghamshire. He was admitted to Lincoln’s Inn in 1748 made a Commissioner of Bankruptcy in 1751 and a Remembrancer in the Exchequer in 1754.He sat in the Irish House of Commons as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Lisburn from 1777 to 1783 and served as Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1776 to 1780.