From an Original Painting in the Pistown of his Great Grandaughter Miss Frances Mary Richanson Corren; of Evaron Fall Published by MEMOIRS OF RICHARD RICHARDSON, M. D. OF NORTH BIERLEY, NEAR BRADFORD, IN THE WEST RIDING OF THE COUNTY OF YORK *. Richard Richardson, of North Bierley, Esq. the grandfather of Dr. Richardson, was born at North Bierley, and baptized at Bradford the 22d of July 1604. He married Jane, second daughter of George Hopkinson, of Lofthouse, near Wakefield, Gent. sister to that learned and industrious Antiquary, Mr. John Hopkinson, of Lofthouse; of whose MS Collections, relating to the Antiquities of the County of York, forty volumes are now preserved in the library of Miss Frances-Mary Richardson-Currer, at North Bierley, who is great, great, great, granddaughter to his sister. About the same number of MS volumes of Mr. John Hopkinson's are now in the possession of John Henry Smyth, Esq. of Heath, near Wakefield, M. P. for the University of Cambridge, who is descended from one of the daughters of Richard Richardson and Jane Hopkinson. This Richard Richardson died, at North Bierley, the 23d of April 1656; his wife died on the 19th of October 1662, and were both buried at Bradford. They had six sons and four daughters. Their third son, John Richardson, lived at Birks, in the parish of Bradford; married Anne, daughter of Mr. Robert Kent, of Cold Henley, near Wakefield; and had a daughter Anne, who married Mr. William Naylor, of Wakefield, by whom she had Charles Naylor, LL. D. Dean of Winchester, and Chancellor of Salisbury; who died unmarried at Winchester, and * Compiled in 1815, by Mrs. Dorothy Richardson, of Gargrave. † A list of the Contents of these Volumes will be given in p. 251. Many of them are valuable, and they will at least afford a proof of Mr. Hopkinson's indefatigable industry; espe cially when it is considered, that Mr. Smyth (as noticed above) has an equal number of Volumes in his possession. VOL. I. was was buried there, in the North aile in the nave of the Cathedral, under a grave-stone, upon which is the following inscription: H. S. E. Decanus Winton. 1739. John Richardson married, secondly, Hannah, daughter of Mr. Thomas Sharp, of Bradford, and sister to John, Lord Archbishop of York, by whom he had issue two sons and three daughters. John, their eldest son, baptized at Bradford Oct. 20, 1675, was successively, M. A. of Christ's College, Cambridge; Rector of Beeford, Prebendary of Wistow, Precentor and Canon Residentiary of the Church of York, and Archdeacon of Cleveland. He married Alathea, daughter and heir of -Wardman, of Catfoss, in Holderness, but had no issue. He died at York, Oct. 28, 1735; and was buried in the Cathedral, where a monument is erected to his memory, with the following inscription: H. I. Johannes Richardson, A. M. Præcentoris et Archidiaconi de Cleveland; in numerum tandem Canonicorum Residentiariorum ascitus: Vir pacificus, verecundus, simplex: Hisce nominibus cum paucis celebrandus, cum plerisque probis et piis quoad cætera laudandus, familiaribus suis et amicis ob admodum suavem à naturâ indolem, non minus charus vixit quam desideratus decessit, 28 Oct. 1735, æt. 60. The The sixth son of Richard Richardson and Jane Hopkinson, Joseph Richardson, A. M. was born the 17th of March 1648; married Elizabeth, eldest daughter and one of the coheirs of John Peebles, of Dewsbury in the county of York, Esq. by whom he had two sons and four daughters. He was Rector of Dunsfold and Hambleton in Surrey; died the 18th of June 1742, and was buried at Dunsfold, where a monument is erected to his memory, with the following inscription: M. S. of Joseph Richardson, M. A. sou of Richard Richardson, of Bierley near York, Esq. and Rector of this Parish; where a constant residence of 62 years He died, universally lamented, June 18th 1742, Near him is interred Elizabeth his wife, daughter and coheir of John Peebles, of Dewsbury, Esq. equal to so worthy a husband; whom she left in assurance of the state on the 9th day of October 1727, aged 72. Their eldest son, Joseph Richardson, of Gray's Inn, was Barrister at Law; and from him the Richardsons of Findon Place, in Sussex, are descended. Their second daughter, Elizabeth, married Thomas Warton, B. D. Vicar of Basingstoke, in Hants, and Chobham, in Surrey, sometime Fellow of Magdalen College, and Professor of Poetry in Oxford. He died in 1745, leaving two sons and one daughter. Their eldest son, Joseph Warton, D. D. was born in the house of his maternal grandfather, and baptized at Dunsfold on the 22d of April 1722. On the 2d of August 1736 he was admitted on the foundation of Winchester College, under Dr. Sandby, having been for a short time at New College School. In September 1740, being superannuated, he was removed from Winchester, and commenced his residence as Commoner at Oriel College, Oxford. On taking his Bachelor's degree, for which he determined in Lent 1744, he was ordained on his father's curacy, and officiated in that church until February 1746, when he removed to the duty of Chelsea; leaving that Curacy, he for a few months discharged the Ministerial duties of Chawton and Doxford; returned to Basingstoke; and in 1747 he was presented by the Duke of Bolton to the Rectory of Wynslade, when he immediately married Miss Daman, of that neighbourhood, to whom he had been long attached; by her he had three sons and two daughters; she died the 5th of October 1772. In 1751 he attended his Patron the Duke of Bolton to France. In 1752 he was instituted to the living of Tunworth, on the presentation of the Jervoise family. In 1755 he was, on the resig nation of the Rev. Samuel Speed, elected Second Master of Winchester School. On the 2d of May 1766 he was elected Head Master of Winchester School, succeeding Dr. Burton, who had resigned. In December 1773 he married, secondly, Miss Nicholas, daughter of Robert Nicholas, Esq. a descendant of Dr. Nicholas, formerly Warden of the College; but by her he had no issue. In 1780 he was made Prebendary of St. Paul's by Dr. Lowth, Bishop of London, and within the year added the living of Chorley, in Hertfordshire, which he afterwards exchanged for Wickham. In 1788 the Bishop of Winchester presented him with a Prebend in that Cathedral; he also was presented to the Rectory of Easton, but was permitted by the Bishop, within that year, to exchange it for Upham. Sixty years had passed over his head before he had any benefice, except the small livings of Wynslade and Tun |