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RICHARDS, JOHN, son of George Richards, Silverton, Devon, and Mary ---; b.; adm.; KS (Capt., aged 14) 1658; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1661, matr. 12 Dec 1661, Westminster Student 4 Jul 1661-77, Faculty Student 1677 – void 1688; BA 1665; MA (Christ Church Act Book) 1668; [perhaps Clerk, Secretary of State’s Office c. 1665 – c. 1673, Under Secretary c. 1673 – Sep 1674; perhaps Deputy Treasurer of Chamber, Royal Household c. Apr 1692 – dead (sic) at 26 Mar 1698]; buried Silverton, Devon 4 Nov 1704.

RICHARDS, JAMES, son of John Richards, St. Margaret’s, Westminster; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1724; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1728, matr. 25 Jun 1728, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1728 – void 30 Apr 1745 (expiry year of grace as R. Odcombe from 28 Apr 1744); BA 1732; MA 18 Mar 1734/5; ordained deacon 16 Jun 1733, priest 22 Sep 1734 (both Oxford); Curate, Littleton, Worcs., 1735, Ashenden, Bucks., 1737; Rector of Odcombe, Somerset, from 4 Apr 1744; m.; d. 1759.

RICHARDS, GRIFFITH, brother of Richard Richards (KS 1802, qv); b. 1 Sep 1796; adm. Mich. 1809; KS 1810; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1814, but went to Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 28 May 1814; 1st cl. Classics and 2nd cl. Mathematics 1817; BA 1818; MA 1820; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 24 Nov 1820, Bencher 1839; also adm. Lincoln’s Inn 10 Nov 1826; QC 1839; practised in Chancery courts; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1828-31, when post abolished); m. 12 Aug 1839 Martha, only dau. of E. S. Dennison, Castlebar House, Ealing, Middlesex; d. 11 Jun 1843. [wife’s father perhaps Edward Stephenson Dennison (IGI)]

RICHARDS, FRANCIS, son of John Richards MD, Chelsea, Middlesex; bapt. St. Luke, Chelsea 3 Dec 1697 (IGI); adm.; QS 1712; left 1716; Queens’ Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 25 Aug 1716; migr. to Emmanuel Coll. 16 May 1721; MB 1722; practised at Grantham, Lincs.; d. 11 Feb 1760.

Richards, Francis Ashburner, son of Francis Gardiner Richards, of Gardiner, Maine, U.S.A., by Anne, daughter of Samuel Ashburner, of London; b. Feb. 22, 1880; adm. Jan. 19, 1893 (R); left July 1894; readm. Sept. 27, 1895; left Nov. 1898; New Coll. Oxon., matric. Michael­mas 1899; B.A. 1902; M.A. 1912; an architect; served in Great War I; Lieut. R.N.V.R. Aug. 19, 1914; m. 1st Jan. 11, 1921, Lilian Mary, daughter of William Francis Hungerford Grey, of London; 2nd Veronica; d. June 13, 1961.

RICHARDS, FITZHERBERT, third son of Rev. Richard [MT admissions give Richard, TCD admissions give Robert] Richards, Dublin; b. Carrickmacross (TCD admissions); adm. (aged 15) Jan 1744/5 (Ludford's); left 1746; Trinity Coll. Dublin, matr. 9 Jul 1746, aged 17 (described as pupil of “Mr. Folds”); adm. Middle Temple 16 Nov 1748; MP (I) Lisburn 1776 – still 1784; a Commissioner of Barracks (I) (occurs 1781); non-resident owner of a plantation in Jamaica (Hickey, Memoirs, ii, 55-60). [will of Fitzherbert Richards, Marlborough Buildings, Bath, proved PCC 9 Aug 1811] [TCD admissions also give Robert Richards, son of Rev. Richard Richards, b. co. Monaghan, TCD adm. 11 Apr 1743, aged 15, ed. by “Mr. Folds”, so it seems likely that Fitzherbert Richards’s father’s Christian name was Richard, not Robert]

RICHARDS, EDWARD, elder son of William Richards (at school under Wilson, qv); b.; adm. 18 Feb 1656/7; KS (aged 14) 1660; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1663, adm. pens. 4 Jul 1663, scholar 1664, matr. 1663; migr. to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Jul 1664, Canoneer Student 7 Jul 1664 – void 1666; adm. Middle Temple 20 May 1663; inherited father’s landed property at Georgeham and Barnstaple, Devon.

RICHARDS, EDWARD VAUGHAN, eldest son of William Parry Richards (qv); b. 18 Nov 1821; adm. 27 Jun 1834 (Benthall's); KS 1836; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1840, matr, 3 Jun 1840, Westminster Student; rowed v. Cambridge 1841; BA 1844; MA 1846; adm. Inner Temple 10 Jan 1844, called to bar 30 Apr 1847, Bencher 26 Apr 1868; Oxford Circuit; QC 21 Feb 1868; m. 30 Oct 1866 Elizabeth Anne, dau. of Robert Wharton, barrister; d. 26 Sep 1884.

RICHARDS, EDWARD C.; b.; adm. 12 Jan 1807; left 1809. [Presumably brother or close kin to John Richards, adm. same day].