RICHARDSON, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 10) Sep 1721.
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.