title: Michał Wielhorski (elder)
text: # Michał Wielhorski (elder)
  
  Michał Wielhorski h. Kierdeja (c. 1730 – 1794) was a Polish noble, official, politician, diplomat and writer. He was the Lithuanian Master of the Kitchen in the years 1763–1774, Lithuanian Great Quartermaster in 1758–1762, starost and envoy of the Bar Confederation to France.
  
  ## Family
  
  He married Elżbieta Ogińska and was the father of three sons.
  
  * Michał Wielhorski (1755–1805), general, husband of Celina Przeuska h. Sulima and Aleksandra Kurdwanowska h. Półkozic
  * Jerzy Wielhorski (1755–1809), field clerk of Lithuania
  * Józef Wielhorski (1759–1817), general
  