Richardson J. (John)
Title
Richardson J. (John)
Creator
"Yorkshire Volunteer"
Coverage
Yorkshire, Sheffield, Newcastle?
Birth Date
1750
First Name
J. (John)
Last Name
Richardson
Bibliography
Radcliffe
Biographical Text
Radcliffe’s bio: “John Richardson was born in Yorkshire, and after serving in the army was for many decades the master of the Free School in Sheffield Park. His elegy for George Coughran suggests that he was living in Newcastle in the 1770s, when he was briefly married; Richardson served with the Yorkshire Volunteers in the 1780s before settling down at Sheffield.”
Occupation
Schoolmaster
Death Date
1840
Publications
Poems on Several Occasions, Chiefly Pastoral (Winchester [1785?], BL 11643.aa.31); Poems on Various Subjects, chiefly Pastoral (Darlington, 1779, BL 632.df.4)
- Date Added
- September 21, 2012
- Collection
- Labour Class Poets
- Item Type
- Person
- Tags
- Male
- Citation
- "Yorkshire Volunteer", “Richardson J. (John),” Amanda's Test Omeka site, accessed May 5, 2024, https://amandafrench.omeka.net/items/show/309.