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, 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, Albert Butler, son of Arthur Berry Richardson, chairman and pres. Chesebrough­ Ponds Inc., of New York, and Annah Parkman, d. of Albert Wheaton Butler, shipbuilder, of Rockland, Maine, USA; b. 5 Apr. 1916; adm. Sept. 1929 (R); left July 1932; Andover Acad., Mass., 1932-5; Princeton Univ., AB 1939; USNR 1943-6 (Ltjg), served Atlantic and Pacific the­ atres; vice-pres. and dir. Chesebrough-Ponds Inc. 1946-73, retd 1973; m. Nov. 1949 Joan Alice, d. of Leon Edward Thompson, builder and land developer USA; d. 10 Mar. 1999.

RICHARDSON, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1626.

RICHARDS, WILLIAM, son of Rev. John Richards, Rector of Kentisbury, Devon, and his second wife Barbara, only child of Philip Pyne, East Down, Devon; b.; adm.; KS 1669; m.; buried Kentisbury, Devon 19 Nov 1690. [Supplement suggests that he may alternatively have been William Richards, younger son of William Richards (at school under Wilson, qv), who under his father’s will inherited landed property at Kentisbury and Eastdowne, Devon].

RICHARDS, ROBERT; b. ; adm. ; KS 1683.