Thomas Richardson (Hartlepool MP, Born 1821)
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Thomas Richardson (6 June 1821 – 29 December 1890) was an English manufacturer of marine engines and
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politician.


Life

Richardson was born in Castle Eden,
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, the son of Thomas Richardson, a shipbuilder and owner of an engineering works in
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. Richardson began as an apprentice in his father's iron foundry in Castle Eden. On the death of his father in 1850, Richardson and his brother John took over the business which traded under the name of T. Richardson Sons. Their business was manufacturing
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s, after they built their first marine engine in 1851. They were also shipbuilders for a short time, but this side of the company went out of business in 1857. Richardson stood unsuccessfully for
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in the newly enfranchised borough of The Hartlepools at the 1868 general election. He won the seat at the 1874 general election, but for financial reasons he resigned from the
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in July 1875 by taking the
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He was re-elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for The Hartlepools at the 1880 general election, and held the seat until his death in December 1890, aged 69. When The Liberals split over
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in 1885, Richardson joined the breakaway
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, and was returned in
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as a Liberal Unionist. Richardson lived at Kirklevington Grange in
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until he built Kirklevington Hall in 1884. He was a J. P. and Deputy Lieutenant for County Durham and a J.P. for the North Riding of Yorkshire.Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench 1886
/ref> He was a member of the Hartlepool Port and Harbour Commissioners. He was also president of Hartlepools Bicycle Club,
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Family

Richardson married Maria Greenwell, the daughter of Richard Greenwell, a Sunderland shipowner, in 1843. They had two daughters and four sons.


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* 1821 births 1890 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs 1885–1886 Liberal Unionist Party MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1886–1892 People from Yarm Deputy lieutenants of Durham 19th-century English businesspeople {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub