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John Samuel Richardson, Baron Richardson, LVO FRCP (16 June 1910 – 15 August 2004) was a British physician, President of the
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, 1973–80. He trained at, and later worked for St Thomas' Hospital. During his career he attended
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and later
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. He was particularly proud of his role as chairman of the Joint Consultants' Committee from 1967 to 1972. He represented the JCC on the so-called Cogwheel Working Party (First Report of the Joint Working Party on the Organisation of Medical Work in Hospitals, 1967). He was President of the
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from 1969 to 1971. Richardson was appointed a Member (fourth class) of the
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(MVO) in 1943, which was reclassified as Lieutenant (LVO) on 31 December 1984. He was
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in 1960, created a
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'of
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' on 20 November 1963. On 2 February 1979 Sir John was created a
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taking the title Baron Richardson, of
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in the County of Devon. He married the artist Sybil Trist in 1933. They remained married until her death in 1991.


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1910 births 2004 deaths Crossbench life peers Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom 20th-century British medical doctors Knights Bachelor Lieutenants of the Royal Victorian Order Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Presidents of the Royal Society of Medicine Life peers created by Elizabeth II {{UK-med-bio-stub