Born 11 July 1884 at Darwen, Lancashire, the only child of John Alfred Richardson, one of HM Inspectors of Schools, and Mary Ann Whitaker, his wife. He was a King's Scholar, 1897, of Durham School, and graduated at Cambridge in 1907. He received his medical training at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and casualty officer. After a period as assistant to Berkeley Moynihan at Leeds, he came back to St Thomas's as resident medical officer at the Home. During the first world war he served in the RAMC in France as a surgical specialist. When he returned to civil practice, he decided to specialize as a gynaecological surgeon. He served at St Thoma's as senior obstetric house physician and was the first chief assistant in the gynaecological department, a post which he held for three years. When J S Fairbairn retired, Richardson was appointed obstetric physician with charge of out-patients. Owing to the pressure of other duties and a growing private practice he resigned after some years. On the outbreak of the second world war in 1939 he rejoined the staff of St Thomas's at Park Prewett Hospital, Basingstoke, under the Ministry of Health's emergency medical service. He had also been assistant physician at the General Lying-in Hospital, Lambeth, and consulting surgeon to the Grosvenor Hospital for Women. He examined in midwifery for Oxford University. Richardson practised in Queen Anne Street, and later at 149 Harley Street, and had a country house at Bramble Carr, Danby, Yorkshire. He married on 28 February 1914 Olive Blanche Upton, who survived him but without children. He died in London on 20 August 1942. Publications: Fibroma of ovary, with papillomatous surface. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1919-20, 13, obstet. p 210. A uterus removed for carcinoma of cervix after treatment by radium. *Ibid* 1922-23, 16, obstet. p 31.