Richard Richardson (Australian politician)

Australian politician

Richard Richardson J.P., (c.1825 – 22 September 1913)[1] was a politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.

Richardson was born in the Tyneside district, England, and have embraced the profession of a civil engineer, he went to Victoria in 1852, and was for some time in the Roads and Bridges department of the Government service. After spending a year or two in Sydney, he, in 1854, settled as a farmer in the Creswick district of Victoria.[2] In 1874 he entered the Assembly as a member for the Electoral district of Creswick, and held the seat till 1886 when he was defeated at the general election. He was, however, re-elected when the district was resized to a single-member electorate in 1889. Mr. Richardson, who was a Liberal and Protectionist, was Minister of Lands and Agriculture in the third Graham Berry Government from August 1880 to July 1881.[2]

Richardson died in Newlyn, Victoria.[1]

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1. ^ a b "Richardson, Richard". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
2. ^ a b Mennell, Philip (1892). "Richardson, Hon. Richard" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co - via Wikisource.