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976 half-pay in 1831. During his career afloat he was five times sent into port in charge of captured vessels, many of them slavers.

 RICHARDSON, K.I.C.

is nephew of the late Rear-Admiral Rich. Raggett; and only brother of Capt. John Geo. Richardson, R.M. (1831).

This officer, who had served as Midshipman on board the 74, Capt. John Bazeley, in Lord Howe’s action, 1 June, 1794, joined, 6 Nov. 1796, the  98, Capt. John Irwin, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Wm. Parker, under whom he fought in the action off Cape St. Vincent, 14 Feb. 1797. He left the in the ensuing Sept.; and during the next six years was employed off Cadiz, and in the Channel, West Indies, and Mediterranean, principally with the rating of Midshipman, in the  32, Capt. John Irwin,  98,  100, and  and  98’s, flag-ships of Admirals Sir Chas. Thompson and Jas. Hawkins Whitshed, 50, Capt. Dan. Woodriff, and 98 and  100, bearing the flags of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis and Lord Nelson. By the latter nobleman he was nominated, 5 Oct. 1803, Acting-Lieutenant of the sloop, Capt. Robt. Pettet. He was confirmed to that vessel 30 April, 1804. He joined next, 15 May, 1807, the sloop, Capt. Alex. Innes, part of the force employed in the expedition to Copenhagen; and was subsequently appointed, in the capacity of First-Lieutenant – 27 May, 1808, 1 Aug. and 18 Dec. 1811, and 2 Oct. 1812, to the, , and 74’s, and  38, Capts. Wm. Cuming, Edw. Durnford King, Sir Josias Rowley, and Sir Peter Parker, all in the Mediterranean, where he came into frequent contact with the enemy’s squadron and batteries in the neighbourhood of Toulon – 12 June, 1813 (having left the in the preceding Dec), to the  32, Capt. Geo. Bell, attached to the force in the Channel – 5 Feb. 1814, to the 74, Capt. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg, with whom he made a voyage to Quebec – and (after five months of half-pay, caused by ill health) 17 June and 18 Aug. 1815, to the 120, flagship of Sir Graham Moore, and  80, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson, both on the Home station. On 19 May, 1812, he commanded with credit the boats of the America, 74, and  sloop, at the capture of 16 and the destruction of two deeply-laden vessels, which had taken shelter under the town and batteries of Languelia, on the coast of Italy, and had been secured by various contrivances to the houses and beach – an exploit that occasioned the British a loss of 16 men killed and 20 wounded. Three months after the paying off of the Mr. Richardson, who had for nine years filled the post of First-Lieutenant in different ships, was advanced, 7 Dec. 1818, to the rank of Commander. He was afterwards employed, from 12 May, 1827, until May, 1828, as Second-Captain, in the 74, Capt. E. D. King, under whom he brought troops home from Lisbon – and from 14 April, 1835, until the close of 1838, in command of the  16. For services performed in the latter vessel (in which he also visited the shores of Africa) on the coasts of Catalonia and Valencia, during the civil war in Spain, he was promoted, 28 June, 1838, to Post-rank, and created by Maria Christina, the Queen-Regent, a Knight of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, the insignia whereof he was permitted by his own sovereign to accept and wear. Since the was put out of commission he has not been afloat.

Capt. Richardson is Honorary Secretary to the Naval Benevolent Society, and has on several occasions received a vote of thanks from the Board of Directors. He married, in 1816, a niece of Vice- Admiral Geo. M‘Kinley, and has issue a daughter and two sons – the one,, a Lieutenant R.N. – the other, C. Richardson, a Clerk in the Admiralty at Somerset House. – J. Hinxman.

 RICHES. 

was present, as Midshipman of the 98, Capt. Chas. Boyles, in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, 22 July, 1805, at the capture of four heavy French frigates off Rochefort, 25 Sept. 1806, and at the passage of the Dardanells in Feb. 1807. In 1810 he assisted, in the 38, Capt. Thos. Briggs, at the capture of the Isle of France; in the following year he co-operated, in the 74, Commodore Wm. Robt. Broughton, in the conquest of the island of Java; and in 1813-14 he commanded, with the rating of Master’s Mate, a gun-boat on the river Elbe and at the reduction of Cuxhaven and Gluckstadt. He was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant 22 Jan. 1814; and has been in charge, since 19 Jan. 1839, of a station in the Coast Guard.

 RICHIE. 

entered the Navy, 6 July, 1799, as L.M., on board the 64, Capts. Alan Hyde Gardner and Solomon Ferris, in which ship and in the 74, Capt. Sam. Hood Linzee, he was employed, until July, 1802, on the Channel, African, North Sea, Baltic, Cadiz, and West India stations. In May, 1807, after having served for about 15 months at Plymouth and at the Brazils and Cape of Good Hope in the 74, Capt. Wm. Hargood, and, as Midshipman, in the 64, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Chas. Stirling, he joined the 74, Capts. John West and Edw. Griffith. While on the books of that ship he saw much gun-boat service in the Straits of Gibraltar, was employed on shore at the defence of the fortress of Rosas, on the coast of Spain, in Nov. 1808, and in the following year contributed to the destruction of several of the enemy’s gun-vessels in the Adriatic. Removing, in April, 1810, to the 36, commanded for some time by Capt. Rich. Buck, he made a voyage to Greenland, and on his return was sent to co-operate with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia. From Dec. 1811 until Aug. 1814 he served in the Channel and Mediterranean, as Master’s Mate, on board the 100, Capts. Wm. Bedford, Jas. Bissett, Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, Chas. Thurlow Smith, and Robt. Lambert. He then joined the 74, Capt. Tristram Robt. Ricketts, under whom he accompanied the expedition against New Orleans and assisted at the reduction of Fort Bowyer. On leaving the in Aug. 1815 he took up a commission bearing date 11 Feb. in that year. He has since been on half-pay. – Burnett and Holmes.

 RICHMOND. 

died in 1848.

This officer entered the Navy, in Dec. 1809, as Fst.-el. Vol., on board the frigate, commanded in the Channel by Capt. Jacob Walton; served next, from Feb. 1811 until Aug. 1815, the greater part of the time as Midshipman, in the  38,  22, and  50, all under the orders of Capt. Sir Geo. Ralph Collier; then joined, in the capacity of Master’s Mate, the floating-battery at Liverpool, Capt. Wm. Simpson; and from June, 1816, until Jan. 1820, was employed at St. Helena as Admiralty-Midshipman in the 24 and  74, Capts. Robt. Wauchope and Fras. Stanfell, and as Acting- Lieutenant and Lieutenant (commission dated 5 Oct. 1819) in the 18, Capt. Isham Fleming Chapman. While attached to the he assisted at the reduction, in 1811-12-13, of several of the enemy’s towns and forts on the north coast of Spain, including those of Lequeytio, Bermeo Galea, Algorta, Bagona, El Campillo las Quersas,