Henry Downing Richardson
b. c. 1817 d. 1849
Irish naturalist and writer. Son of Alexander Richardson and Lucinda Siree, who married in Dublin in 1816. Lived in Edinburgh in his youth; member of the Holyrood Gymnastic Club and a champion in the running high leap, 1836. Resident in Dublin, 1840s. Wrote on deer, dogs, bees, pigs, horses, and boys’ sports. His niece was the Australian writer Henry Handel Richardson.
Sources
CDEL
A. Clark 1990, p. 12
Dublin, Ireland, probate record and marriage license index, 1270–1858 (Ancestry.com, accessed 20 December 2016)
Scotsman, 10 August 1836, p. 3
Thom’s Irish almanac 1849
Bibliography
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Clark, Axel. 1990. Henry Handel Richardson: fiction in the making. Brookvale, NSW: Simon and Schuster Australia in association with New Endeavour Press.
Thom’s Irish almanac: Thom’s Irish almanac and official directory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Dublin: Alexander Thom. 1846–80.
