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240 ceiving his education at the district-school of Johns- town, studied law, and was admitted to the liar of Upper Canada in 1848. He was created queen's counsel in 18G3, entered parliament, and was a member of the executive council of Canada, and solicitor-general for Upper Canada. In 1863-'4 he sat in the Canada assembly as a representative from South Leeds. He accompanied William MeDougall to the northwest as attorney-general in the provis- ional government in 1869, and for several years was land agent of the Dominion government in British Columbia. He was lieutenant-governor of that province from 1H75 till 1881.

'''RICHARDS. William Carey''', author, b. in London, England, 24 Nov.. 1818. His father re- moved to this country in 1831, and the son was graduated at Madison university in 1840. lie then went to the south, and for ten years was en- gaged in educational and literary work in Georgia. In 1849 he removed to Charleston, S. C.. where, he raided for two years. During his life in the south he edited the " Orion " magazine and The School- fellow." In 1852 he returned to the north, and soon afterward entered the ministry. In 1855 he be- came associate pastor of the 1st Baptist church in Providence, R. I. From 1855 till 1862 he was pastor of the Brown street Baptist church in the same city, and he subsequently ministered to churches in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1865 '9, and Chicago, Ill., 18?6-'7. For twenty-five years he has given public lectures in the United States and Canada on the popular aspects of physical science, illustrated by an extensive apparatus. He has'received the honorary degree of Ph. D. Prof. Richards has contributed frequently to magazines, and is the author of several college and annivei>ary poems. His principal works an- Shakespeare Calendar "(New York, 1850); "Harry's Vacation, or Philosophy at Home " ( 1*54) : ' Electron " (1858) ; "Science in Song "(1865); " Great in Goodness, a Memoir of George X. Briggs, Governor of Ma--,-i- chusetts" (Boston, ISliiii; "Baptist Banquets" (Chicago, 1881); "The Lord is My Shepherd" (1884) ; " The Mountain Anthem " (1885) ; and " Our Father in Heaven " (Boston, 1886). His wife. Cor- nelia Holroyd (BRADLEY), author, b. in Hudson, N. V.. 1 Nov.. 1S22. after gradual ion at New Hamp- ton literary and theological in>titute, married Dr. Richards on 21 Sept.. 1S41. She haswritlen un- der the pen-name of " Mrs. Manners," and is the author of "At Home and Abroad, or How to Behave" (New York, 1853); " Pleasure and Profit, or Lessons on the Lord's Prayer "(IS.I:!) ; "Aspiration, an Autobiography" (1S56): Sedgemoor. or Home Lessons" (1857); "Hester and I, or Beware of Worldlines.-" llS(iO): "Springs of Adion" (1*6:!); and "Cousin Alice," a memoir of her sister, Alice B. Haven (1871). His brother, Thomas Addison. artist, b. in London, England, 3 Dec., 1820, came to the United States at the age of eleven, and from 1835 till 1845 resided in Georgia. Thence he went to New York, where for the next two years he was a pupil at the National academy. He was elected an associate of the academy in 1848, and an academician in 1851. In 1852 he became its corresponding secretary, which post he held until 1892. In 1858-'60 he was director of the Cooper union school of design for women, being the first to fill the office. Since 1867 he has been professor of art in the Uni- versity of the city of New York, which gave him the honorary degree of M. A. in 1878. He ha- re- sided in New York since 1845, but has travelled much, both at home and abroad. His nunienm- paiuiings include " Alastor, or the Spirit of Sol- itude," and " The Indian's Paradise a Dream of the Happy Hunting Ground " (1854) ; " Live Oaks of the South'" (1858); "The French Broad River. N. C." (1859); "Sunnyside" (1862); "The River Rhine" and " Warwick Castle " (1869) : " Chatsworth, Eng- land " (1870); "Lake Thun, Switzerland " (1871) ; "Italian Lake Scene " (1873) ; "Lake in the Adi- rondacks" (1875); Lake Winnipiseogee. " (ls7(!i; "Lake Brienz, Switzerland" (1879); and "The Edisto River, S. C." (1886). He is also well known as an author and illustrator of books, and has pub- lished " The American Artist " (Baltimore, 1838) ; "Georgia Illustrated" (Augusta, 1842); "The Romance of American Landscape " (1854) ; " Sum- mer Stories of the South " (Charleston, S. C., 1852) ; and "Pictures and Painters" (London, 1870). For most of these he furnished both text and illustra- tions. He was also engaged on Appletons' " Hand- books of Travel."

RICHARDS, William Trost, artist, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 14 Nov., 1833. He had some in- struction from Paul Weber, and in 1855 went abroad, remaining about a year. In 1867 he visited Paris, and in 1878 he went "again to Europe. Dur- ing 1878-'80 he had a studio in London, and ex- hibited at the Royal academy and the Grosvenor gallery. Mr. Richards has had his studio in Phila- delphia for many years, and is an associate of the Pennsylvania academy, and an honorary member of the National academy and the American water- color society, lie gained a medal at Philadelphia in 1876, and the Temple silver medal in 1885. In his earlier years he was a pronounced pre-Raphaelite, and all of his paintings show a masterly treatment of detail. Of late years his attention has been es- pecially directed to marine painting. Among his works in oil are "Tulip-Trees" (1859); " Midsum- mer" (1862); "Woods in June" (1864); "Mid- Ocean" (1869); "On the Wissahickon " (1872); "Sea and Sky" (1875); "Land's End" (1880); " Old Ocean's Gray and Melancholy Waste " (1885) ; and " February "and" A Summer Sea "(1887). His work in water-colors has become widely known, and includes " Cedars on the Sea-Shore " (1873) ; "Paradise, Newport" (1875); ''Sand-Hills, Coast, N. J." (1876); "King Arthur's Castle, Tintagel, Cornwall" (1879); "Mullion Gull Rock, Tintagel, Cornwall" (1882); "The Unresting Sea" (1884); "Cliffs of Moruch, Land's End" (1885); "A Sum- mer Afternoon " (1886) ; and " Cliffs of St. Colomb " and "A Break in the Storm" (1887). In the Met- ropolitan museum. New York, there are forty-seven of his landscape and marine views in water-colors. His "On the Coast of New Jersey" is in the Cor- coran gallery. Washington.

RICHARDSON, Albert Deane, journalist, b. in Franklin, Mass., 6 Oct., 1833; d. in New York city. 2 Dec., 1869. He was educated at the district school of his native village and at Holliston academy. At eighteen years of age he went to Pittsburg, Pa., where he formed a newspaper connection, wrote a farce for Barney Williams, and appeared a few times on the stage. In 1857 he went to Kansas, taking an active part in the political struggle of the territory, attending anti-slavery meetings, making speeches, and corresponding about the issues of the hour with the Boston "Journal." He was also secretary of the territorial legislature. Two years later he went to Pike's peak, the gold fever being then at its height, in company with Horace Greeley, between whom and Richardson a lusting friendship was formed. In the autumn of l*.V.i he made a journey through the southwestern territories, and sent accounts of hi- wanderings to eastern journals. I lining I lie winter that preceded the civil war he volunteered to go through the south