Richard Buckley Litchfield
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Richard Buckley Litchfield (1832-1903) was a British scholar and philanthropist.
[edit] Life
He was the only son of Captain Richard Litchfield of Cheltenham, England. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a friend of James Clerk Maxwell, and then taught mathematics. Later he made a career as a barrister.
He corresponded with John Ruskin.
He married one of the daughters of Charles Darwin, Henrietta Emma ('Etty') Darwin, in 1871, but there were no children from the marriage.
[edit] Work
He was the founder of the Working Men's College, London, where he devotedly worked for nearly 50 years. He was the editor of The Working Men's College magazine in the mid 1850s.
He wrote a substantial biography of the inventor of photography, Thomas Wedgwood, which was published in the year of his death.
[edit] References
- Lichfield, Henrietta Emma (1910). Richard Buckley Litchfield: A memoir written for his friends. University Press, Cambridge. (276 pages).
- Litchfield, Richard Buckley (1902). The Beginnings of the Working Men's College. London, England.
- Litchfield, Richard Buckley (1903). Tom Wedgwood, the First Photographer: An Account of His Life. London, Duckworth and Co.
