Joseph Richardson (1830 – 25 September 1902)
was a
Liberal Party politician in
England.
Career
Richardson was a son of Caleb Richardson, a member of an old
Quaker
Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belie ...
family. He had several brothers, including Edwin Richardson (d.1902) and Stansfield Richardson, who both served as Mayors of Sunderland.
Richardson was head of the firm of Messrs. Richardson, Duck and Company, one of the chief shipbuilding firms on the
Tees River, which in 1852 turned out the first two iron vessels launched on the river. He was also largely interested in the
Durham collieries and iron works.
Richardson was five times Mayor of the borough of
Stockton-on-Tees
Stockton-on-Tees, often simply referred to as Stockton, is a market town in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham, England. It is on the northern banks of the River Tees, part of the Teesside built-up area. The town had an estimated ...
, including on his death in 1902. He was a
Deputy Lieutenant of Durham and a Vice-Chairman of the
Durham County Council
Durham County Council is a local authority administering all significant local government functions in the unitary authority area of County Durham in North East England. The council area covers part of the ceremonial county of County Durham, e ...
.
He was elected as
Member of Parliament (MP) for
South East Durham at the
1892 general election. He was defeated at the
1895 general election by the
Liberal Unionist Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, who he had ousted in 1892. Havelock-Allan died in 1897, and Richardson won the resulting
by-election in 1898, but lost his seat again at the
1900 general election.
He died after a long illness on 25 September 1902, aged 72.
He was three times married.
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1830 births
1902 deaths
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1892–1895
UK MPs 1895–1900
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