Stephen Richards (politician)

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For other persons of the same name, see Stephen Richards.

Stephen Richards (1820 – October 4, 1894) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Niagara in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative member from 1867 to 1874.

He was born in Brockville in 1820 and educated in Toronto. He was called to the bar in 1844. In 1858, he was named Queen's Counsel. He was elected to the provincial legislature in an 1867 by-election after the sitting member resigned. He served as Commissioner of Crown Lands in the Executive Council of the province from 1867 to 1871 and provincial secretary in 1871. He died in Toronto in 1894.

One of his brothers, William Buell Richards, was first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Another, Albert Norton Richards, was a member of the Canadian House of Commons and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.

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• Member's parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
• The Canadian parliamentary companion and annual register, 1874, HJ Morgan