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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.

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, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Richards, Warmwell, Dorset, and Susanna Savage; bapt. 30 Apr 1724; at school under Nicoll (Admissions to Trin. Coll. Camb. , iii, 137); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 21 Oct 1741, aged 17, matr. 1741; adm. Inner Temple 18 Apr 1741, called to bar 10 Feb 1748/9; of Warmwell, Dorset; High Sheriff Dorset 1763; m. 10 Sep 1753 Margaret, only dau. of Edward Clavell, Smedmore, Dorset; d. 10 Apr 1803.

RICHARDS, WILLIAM, eldest son of Rev. Richard Richards, Rector of Combe Martin, Devon, and of Kentisbury, Devon, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Hancock, Combe Martin, Devon; bapt. Nov 1600; at school under Wilson four years (J. Venn, Biog. Hist. of Gonville and Caius Coll., i, 239); Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. to scholars’ table 4 May 1618, scholar Lady Day 1619 – Lady Day 1620, matr. Easter 1618; adm. Middle Temple 20 Jun 1620, called to bar 11 Feb 1630/1; of Kentisbury and Barnstaple, Devon, and of New Street, Westminster; lic. to m. 28 Jan 1633/4 Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Norgate, Westminster, Windsor Herald, and his second wife, and half-sister of Thomas Norgate (qv); d. 1659 (will proved PCC 17 Dec 1659, as of Middle Temple).