Thomas Richardson (cricketer)

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Thomas Richardson (July 4, 1865 — December 10, 1923) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire during the 1895 season. He was born and died in Tutbury.

Richardson appeared in a first-class match for the first time in 1888, playing in an England XI against a team of touring Australians. However, the England team lost the match by an innings margin, having scored just 28 runs in the first innings.

Richardson played three matches for Staffordshire during 1892, but it was for Derbyshire in their first year in the County Championship that he made his county breakthrough, playing three matches in the competition in 1895, his debut coming against Hampshire just a month before his thirtieth birthday. Richardson played his final first-class match in a victory against Leicestershire in August, in which team-mate George Walker took nine wickets in the first innings and made 44 runs from tenth in the batting order.