Edward Richardson (priest)

Edward Shaw Richardson (1862-1921) was Archdeacon of Blackburn from 1920 to 1921. [1]

He was educated at Rossall School and Trinity College, Cambridge and ordained in 1867.[2] He began his ecclesiastical career with curacies in Poulton-le-Fylde,[3] Corbridge, Kersal and Ancoats. He was then successively Rector of St Paul’s, Hulme;[4] Vicar of St Matthew’s, Bolton; Rector of St George’s, Hulme; and a Canon Residentiary of Manchesterbefore his Archdeacon’s appointment.[5]

He died on 15 November 1921.[6]

References

  1. London Gazette
  2. ‘Church News’ The Newcastle Weekly Courant (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England), Friday, December 23, 1887; Issue 11110
  3. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE Liverpool Mercury (Liverpool, England), Thursday, November 8, 1888; Issue 12740
  4. ’Ecclesiastical Appointments’The Standard (London, England), Thursday, February 14, 1895; pg. 8; Issue 22034
  5. ‘RICHARDSON, Ven. Edward Shaw’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 23 June 2013
  6. Deaths The Times (London, England), Thursday, Nov 17, 1921; pg. 1; Issue 42880.
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Willoughby Charles Allen
Archdeacon of Blackburn
1920–1921
Succeeded by
Atherton Gwillym Rawstorne