Family
He was the father of Maria Edgeworth, Michael Pakenham Edgeworth, and 20 other children (by his four wives), and grandfather to Francis Ysidro Edgeworth.
- By his first wife Anna Maria Elers Edgeworth had four children: Richard (1765–1796), died in America; Maria the novelist; Emmeline, married to J. King of Clifton; and Anna Maria, married to Dr. Thomas Beddoes.
- By his second wife Honora Sneyd he had Lovell, who inherited the property, and Honora, a beauty, who died in 1790.
- By his third wife Elizabeth Sneyd, he had five sons and four daughters, of whom Charles Sneyd (d. 1864) succeeded his brother Lovell, and Honora married Sir Francis Beaufort; William Edgeworth was known as an engineer.
- By his fourth wife Frances Ann Beaufort, daughter of Daniel Augustus Beaufort, he had four children, of whom Francis Beaufort, mentioned in Thomas Carlyle's Life of Sterling, married a Spanish lady, Rosa Florentina Eroles, and was by her father of Antonio Eroles Edgeworth, who succeeded his uncle, Charles Sneyd, at Edgeworthstown, and of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth.
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