Lieutenant General Richard Ingoldsby (died 1712) was an English general who enjoyed the regard of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and later played a role in the government of Ireland. He was the son of Sir George Ingoldsby, a soldier who was killed during the Anglo-Dutch Wars; his mother, whose maiden name was Gould, was Irish. His father was a son of Sir Richard Ingoldsby of Lenborough in Buckinghamshire and Elizabeth Cromwell, aunt of Oliver Cromwell; his uncles were Richard Ingoldsby, the regicide and Sir Henry Ingoldsby, 1st Baronet.