Joseph Richardson

(1755-1803)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Richardson, Joseph, 1755-1803 DNB: Richardson, Joseph (1755–1803), writer and politician LBT ID: JoRicha1803 VIAF ID: 14800212 LOC ID: n82208547	B/BAP: 1755 DIED: 1803-06-09
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Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, he was a journalist, poet, Whig MP for Newport, and close friend of Sheridan.
REFERENCES TO Joseph Richardson: Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R & T Sheridan I Found 2: ¶ 17 ¶ 18