Born 15 December 1869 at Wemdder Cilycwm, Carmarthenshire, the fourth child and third son of William Richards, a farmer, and Elizabeth Morgan, his wife. He received his medical education at the London Hospital, at St Bartholomew's, and at the University of Durham. He visited afterwards Berlin and Paris. During his undergraduate career at the Medical School attached to the University of Durham he obtained first-class honours in practical chemistry, anatomy, pathology, and medicine, and was the medallist in midwifery. He then settled in Talycoed near Monmouth, where he practised during 1894-98 and was subsequently medical officer and public vaccinator for the Llanishen district of the Cardiff Union. From 1899 until 1901 his name does not appear in the *Medical Register*, but in 1902 he was living in London and in 1904-06 he was at Plymouth, where he was gynaecologist to the Plymouth Public Dispensary and consulting obstetric surgeon to the Fowey Cottage Hospital. He then returned to London and acted as clinical assistant at the Chelsea Hospital for Women and surgeon to the Kensington and Fulham General Dispensary. He retired in 1918 to Kemeys, near Usk, Monmouthshire, died unmarried on 13 July 1933 in a nursing home at Chiswick and is buried in the churchyard at Kemeys.