William Richardson (1710 – 1758) was an Irish landowner from Richhill,

County Armagh County Armagh (, named after its county town, Armagh) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. Adjoined to the southern shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of an ...

. He was

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in 1737 and represented

in the

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from 1739 to his death. He was the son of John Richardson, High Sheriff in 1715 and his wife Anne Beckett, daughter of William Beckett, Second Serjeant, and father of William Richardson, High Sheriff in 1773 and MP for Armagh 1783–1797.

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* * http://www.craigavonhistoricalsociety.org.uk/rev/crozier1718c.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Richardson, William 1710 births 1758 deaths High Sheriffs of Armagh Irish MPs 1727–1760 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Armagh constituencies