Henry Richard
1812–88
Welsh clergyman and politician. Worked as a draper’s apprentice and assistant in Aberystwyth. Entered Highbury College, Middlesex, to train for the ministry, 1830. Ordained 1835. Congregationalist pastor of Marlborough Chapel, 1835–48. Secretary of the Peace Society, from 1848. MP for Merthyr Tudful, 1868–88, supporting various Welsh causes.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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