Jonathan Richardson (MP)

Jonathan Joseph Richardson (1804 – 2 October 1876) was an Irish politician. He was a member of the Quaker Richardson family and a relative of James Nicholson Richardson MP. He was elected as a Member of Parliament for Lisburn in 1853^[1] as a Liberal, and again in 1859 as a Conservative, resigning in 1863.

Richardson lived at Kirkcassock House, County Down, which was designed by Alfred Waterhouse, ca. 1865.^[2]

References

• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)

1. ↑ Walker suggests J.J. Richardson (elected 1853), was a different person from Jonathan Richardson (elected as a Liberal in 1857 and as a Conservative in 1859). Stenton, whose entry for the MP is mostly based upon the 1862 edition of Dod's Parliamentary Companion, states that Jonathan Richardson was "First returned for Lisburn Oct. 1853, and sat until he accepted Chiltern Hundreds Feb. 1863".
2. ↑ Dictionary of Irish Architects