Legh Richmond
Legh Richmond (1772–1827), English divine, was born on 29 January 1772, in Liverpool. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] and in 1798 was appointed to the joint curacies of St. Mary's Church, Brading and St. John the Baptist Church, Yaverland on the Isle of Wight. He was powerfully influenced by William Wilberforce's Practical View of Christianity, and took a prominent interest in the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Church Missionary Society and similar institutions.
In 1805 he became assistant-chaplain to the Lock Hospital, London, and rector of Turvey, Bedfordshire, where he remained till his death on 5 May 1827. The best known of his writings is The Dairyman's Daughter, of which as many as four millions in nineteen languages were circulated before 1849. A collected edition of his stories of village life was first published in 1814 under the title of Annals of the Poor. He also edited a series of Reformation theological works, with biographies, in eight volumes called Fathers of the English Church (1807–12).[2] Sixteen years after Richmond’s death, the prolific engraver George Brannon published a supplement to Annals of the Poor under the title The Landscape Beauties of the Isle of Wight (1843).[3]
He is thought to have originated the now globally popular idea of using boards with movable numbers to indicate hymn numbers during church services, whilst at Brading.
References
- ↑ "Richmond, Legh (RCMT789L)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ Contents at https://archive.org/stream/cyclopaediabibl01darlgoog#page/n483/mode/1up
- ↑ Brannon, George. The Landscape Beauties of the Isle of Wight, as Described by L. Richmond (in His Celebrated “Annals of the Poor”). Illustrated with engravings of some of the principal objects, explanatory notes and such other additional information as are necessary to constitute a brief local guide. Wootton Common: George Brannon, 1843.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
"Richmond, Legh". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
External links
- The Negro Servant in "Annals of the Poor. Containing The Dairyman's Daughter, (with considerable additions) The Negro Servant, and the Young Cottager." New Haven: Whiting and Tiffany, Sign of Franklin's Head, Corner of College Green, 1815.
- Works by Legh Richmond at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Legh Richmond at Internet Archive
- Rev. Legh Richmond, Information on Legh Richmond, The Turvey Website - a site dedicated the history and families of the Bedfordshire village of Turvey.
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