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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Apr. 22, 1795. S. of Robert Richardson [M.D.], surgeon of Colchester. B. there, 1778.] School Colchester. ' Matric. Michs. 1795; Scholar, 1795; B.A. (4th Wrangler) 1799; M.A. 1802; B.D. 1810. Fellow, 1800-14; Dean 1809-14. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) Apr. 7, 1805; priest, June 28, 1807. R. of Little Hormead, Herts., 1813-52 and C. of Great Hormead, 1817-43. A good amateur artist. Illustrated an edition of Goldsmith's Poems, 1811; also wrote and illustrated Letters on the Scenery of North Wales, and Zoology of the English Poets corrected by the writings of Modern Naturalists. Died Jan. 21 1852. M.I. in Little Hormead Church. Father of Charles A. (1836). (Boase, II. 1119; St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 397; Clergy List; D.N.B.; G. Mag., 1852, I. 311.)