RICHARDSON, WILLIAM, son of Rev. Samuel Richardson, Vicar of Wilshamstead, Beds., and Prebendary of Lincoln, and Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Samuel Bentham, Rector of Knebworth, Herts., and Prebendary of Lincoln; b. 23 Jul 1698; adm. (education at the School recorded by Alum. Cant. ); Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 19 Mar 1715/6, scholar and Johnson exhibitioner; BA 1719/20; MA 1723; BD and DD 1735; ordained deacon 25 Sep 1720, priest 23 Sep 1722 (both Lincoln); Prebendary of Lincoln 24 Oct 1724 – Mar 1760; Lecturer, St. Olave’s, Southwark, Surrey 1726; Master of Emmanuel Coll. from 10 Aug 1736; Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge Univ. 1737-8, 1769-70; Chaplain in Ordinary to George II and III 1746-68; Precentor of Lincoln from 12 Mar 1760, after a long law suit; edited Godwin, De Praesulibus Angliae Commentarii, 1743; FSA 19 Jun 1735; left several MS volumes relating to Cambridge Univ. and its members; m. 1728 Anne, widow of Capt. David Durell, and only dau. of William Howe, Cheshire; d. 15 Mar 1775. DNB.
RICHARDSON, ROBERT, only son of William Richardson (b. 1698, qv); bapt. All Hallows, Bread Street, London Apr 1731 (IGI); adm. (aged 12) Jun 1743 (Watts'); left 1745; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 26 Sep 1745; 14th Wrangler 1749/50; BA 1749/50; MA 1753 (incorp. Oxford 3 Jul 1754); DD 1766; Fellow, Emmanuel Coll. 1755; ordained deacon 22 Sep 1754, priest 25 May 1755 (both Lincoln); Chaplain to Sir Joseph Yorke, British Minister at The Hague; Rector of Wallington, Herts., from 1759; Prebendary of Lincoln from 12 Mar 1760; Rector of Adstock, Bucks., 1771 (disp. to hold with Wallington); Rector of All Hallows the Great, London 1 Nov 1776-8; Rector of St. Anne’s, Soho, from 13 Aug 1778; FRS 25 Feb 1779; FSA 6 May 1779; drew up a précis of the documents in the Douglas peerage case, printed for distribution and put into the hands of counsel; d. 27 Sep 1781. DNB.
RICHARDSON, RICHARD, of London; b.; adm. (aged 12) May 1738; left 1741; Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm. sizar 6 May 1742, aged 16, Matthews scholar 12 Nov 1742; migr. to Clare Hall, adm. sizar 7 Jan 1742/3, matr. 1743; BA 1745/6; ordained deacon (Ely) Jun 1747, priest (London) 10 Jun 1750; Vicar of Finchingfield, Essex, from 10 Jun 1753; m. 1st, 24 Aug 1753 --- King, Epping, Essex; m. 2nd, 1 Nov 1770 --- Stevens, Chislehurst, Kent; buried Finchingfield, Essex 18 May 1771.
Richardson, Philip Arthur, son of Group Capt. Arthur James Richardson RAF and Dorothy, d. of Luther Norman of Stansted, Essex; b. 24 June 1928; adm. Sept. 1945 (B); left July 1946; d. Apr. 1995.
RICHARDSON, JOHN, son of Thomas Richardson, a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and Melior, sister of Lieut. -Col. James Gower; bapt. Westminster Abbey 8 May 1671; adm.; KS 1685; elected to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 29 Jun 1688, aged 17, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1688 – void 1705; BA 1692; MA 13 Mar 1694/5; accused of fathering a bastard and of beating Christ Church porter 24 Dec 1701; BM and DM 1702 [check]; buried Chiswick, Middlesex 27 Mar 1711.
RICHARDSON, HERBERT, son of Very Rev. John Richardson DD, Dean of Hereford, and his first wife; b. c. 1615 (aged 19 in 1634); adm.; KS; a contributor to the congratulatory verses to Charles I written by the KSS on the birth of the Duke of York (British Library, Royal MSS); Sidney Sussex Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 10 Jun 1635, aged 18, matr. Easter 1635; MA [check] 1635/6; lic. to m. 6 Nov 1634 Catherine, dau. of John Mitchell, St. Margaret, Westminster.
Richardson, Frederick Fales, brother of Albert Butler Richardson (qv); b. 2 Aug. 1918; adm. May 1932 (R); left July 1936; Princeton Univ.; Esso Standard Oil Co. Bombay; m. 11 Dec. 1947 Piloo Rustem, d. of Rustem Khaikhusru Albless of Bombay; d. 9 July 1983.
Richardson, Denis John Arthur; b. Sept. 8, 1888; adm. Sept. 26, 1901 (G); left Dec. 1905; a schoolmaster; assumed the surname of Richardson only in lieu of Richardson-Kuhlmann Sept. 19, 1914; Gunner R.G.A. July 29, 1917; d. 1952.
RICHARDSON, CHARLES, second son of Sir Thomas Richardson, Kt, Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, and his first wife Ursula, third dau. of John Southwell, Barham Hall, Suffolk; b.; at school under Wilson (J. Venn, Biog. Hist. of Gonville and Caius Coll., i, 251); Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. to bachelors’ table 29 Sep 1620, aged 18, readm. as fellow commoner 15 Jan 1620/1, matr. 1620; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Jun 1620; d. before 4 Feb 1634/5.