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One Richard Cantillon, son of Philip Cantillon of Ballyheigue, County Kerry, was born in Ireland. Joseph Hone argued convincingly that this was the economist, on the ground that this Richard married Mary Ann Mahony, daughter of Lady Clare, and had with her a daughter Henrietta, who married Lord Farnham (after the death of her first husband, the Earl of Stafford). Earlier writers had estimated Cantillon’s birth to have been as many as 17 years earlier, but subsequent scholars have tended to accept Hone’s evidence; for example, Joseph J. Spengler (1954, p. 283) and Anita Page (1952, p. xxiv
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 1st edition, 1987. Edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman.
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Walsh, V. (1987). Cantillon, Richard (1697–1734). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_352-1
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