John Henry Richman (1791 – 21 January 1864) was a lawyer in the young British colony of South Australia. Richman, his wife Frances (née Hampton) and children Henry John, Sophia, and Frances arrived in South Australia in February 1839 on the ''Thomas Harrison''. He was Clerk to the Magistrates Bench from 1843, and in February 1846 qualified as a lawyer. From around 1853 to 1856 he had a partnership with

W. R. Wigley William Rodolph Wigley (c. 1826 – 6 May 1890) was a lawyer and politician in the British colony of South Australia. W. R. Wigley was born in England to Henry Rodolph Wigley, who emigrated to South Australia with some of his family on the ''Sc ...

(c. 1826–1890) as Richman & Wigley, solicitors, with offices in Clark's buildings, Hindley Street, then White's Chambers, King William Street. He was one of the

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appointed in the revised list of 1862. He owned Icalla Icalla station (also called Italli Italli) near Quorn. and "Warnbunga", Watervale, near

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, where he lived from 1861 or earlier, and where he died in 1864.

Family

John Henry Richman (1791–1864) married Frances Hampton (1807–1865) on 11 Jul 1823. Their children included: *Henry John Richman (January 1825 – 2 August 1902) married Mary Nagle (c. 1830 – 20 December 1900). He ran Mount Brown station near Quorn and the Old Lincoln Gap run near

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, later Pernatty and McDouall Peak stations, further north. Later blind, he died of dropsy at his home on

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. :*Frances Alice Richman (1855 – 2 October 1931) married Capt. (later Colonel) (Arthur Scrocold) Wade Gregory ( – ) on 4 July 1885. She contested implementation of her father's Will. :*Alice Frances Richman (13 November 1856 – 14 January 1882) companion of her aunt Lady Olive Fergusson; died of cholera in India :*Edward Richman (12 December 1858 – 30 April 1931) married the widow Lillian Maud Johnstone, née Martin, ( –1943) in 1926; they had no children. He was Captain of the 5th Imperial Bushmen's Corps in the Boer War, and managed his father's Clare properties. *Sophia Richman ( – June 1885) married Sir

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(22 August 1803 – 1 January 1887) in 1841 *Frances Richman ( – 12 August 1906) married Gavin D(avid) Young ( – 26 February 1881) on 24 October 1861, residence "Arthur Seat", Mount Lofty :*George James Young ( – 17 April 1926) married Margaret Ower Ritchie ( – ) on 14 December 1888. Margaret was a daughter of the Hon.

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PC. :*Jessie Frances Young ( – 5 July 1924) married Alec Raven ( – ) on 4 August 1888. *fifth daughter Emily Mason Richman (c. 1839 – 18 November 1896) married George Cornelius Gooch (1836–) on 1 September 1858 *youngest daughter Olive Richman (c. 1843 – 8 January 1882) married

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Bart., KCMG (1832–1907) on 11 March 1873. :*They had one son, Alan Walter John Fergusson (16 August 1878 – 6 August 1909). Sir James had another two sons by a previous marriage. Lady Olive died of cholera at Marbleshwar, the Governor's summer residence in Bombay (today's

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), where Sir James was

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. She was accompanied by her niece Alice Frances Richman, who died from the same disease two days after the funeral. Alan and his wife died in a boating accident.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Richman, John Henry 19th-century Australian lawyers 1789 births 1864 deaths