Richards, William Lyman, a native Indian missionary, was born in Lahina, Southern India, Dec. 2, 1823. He was sent to America to be educated with a view to the ministry. He accordingly entered Jeft'erson College, Va., where be graduated in 1841. Soon after he left college he became teacher of a classical school in Woodington, Va., where he remained one year, and then entered the Union Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1846. He received license to preach at the same time, and was ordained to the (Jospel ministry in Oct., 1847, and sent as a missionary to Full Chau, China, at which place he remained initil 1851, when, on account of declining health, he was released and advised to return to the United States for its recovery, but died at sea near St. Helena, in the South Atlantic, June 5 of the same year, (W, P, S.)
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Richardson, Chauncey, a Methodist minister, was born ill Wrinont in 1S(I2. Wlicn nineteen years of afce lie pmCessed conversion, and in 1823 was licensed to preach. In lK2t) he was received on trial hv the New Eniiland Conference, and in 1832, because uf im- paired health, was oblij^cd to locate. I lis first resi- dence in the South was at 'ruscmnbia, Ala., where he labored to l)uild up an educational institution. He was elected president of Kutersville College, Texas, in 1839, and became a member of the lirst Annual Confer- ence in Texas, 1840. He was also a member of the convention held in Louisville, 1815, to organize the Methodist Episcopal Church, South ; and of its Gen- eral Conference in 1850. He served the Church as presiding elder, as editor of the Church paper, the Tejras Wesleyan Banner, and as conference secretary for sev- eral years. He died April 11,1852. IMr. Kichardson was a good, gifted, trusty man.— Sprague, Annals of (he Amir. J'lt/pit, \'u, 721 ; Minuter oj' Annual Conf. M. A". Church, South, 1852, p. 423.
Richardson, James, D.D., fourth bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada after the sepa- rate organization of 1828, was born at Kingston, Upper Canada, Jan. 29, 1791. He was trained as a sailor on the lakes; in the war of 1812-15 he served as a lieuten- ant in the provincial marine, and subsequently as prin- cipal pilot of the royal fleet. In the capture of the fort of Oswego he lost his left arm. At the close of the war he settled at I'resque Isle, and became magis- trate and collector of customs. He was converted in 1817, and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church tlie following year, serving the Church as steward and lo- cal preacher. In 1825 he was admitted on trial into the Conference, and was ordained deacon at Hamil- ton Conference, 1827, but was not ordained elder till 1830. In 1831 Mr. Richardson was appointed presid- ing elder of the Niagara district, and in 1832 editor of The Christian Guardian. He opposed the union with the British Wesleyans in 1833, but finally acceded to it and accepted appointments under it. But after- wards, being dissatisfied, he removed to the United States, and was preacher in charge at Auburn. In 1837 he returned to Toronto and joined those who continued to adhere to Episco|)al Methodism. In 1840 he be- came agent for the Upper Canada Bible Society, and held the office for eleven years. In 1852 he was ap- pointed presiiling elder, and in 18.)S, at St. Davids, he was elected and consecrated bishop, which office he held until his death, in March, 1875. See Simpson. Cyclop, of Methodism, s. v.
Richardson, James J., a minister of the IMefh- odist ICpiscopal Ciiurch. was born in Tennessee in 1808. He experienced religion in 1822, and in 1827 emigrated to Illinois. He was admitted on trial in tlie Illinois Conference in 1837, and served the Church in active work until 1856, when, because of failing health, he took a superannuated relation. In 18.59 he became effective, but in 18t;2 he was again superamniated. In 1805 he was appointed to Spring tiarden Circuit, which he served three years. He then travelleil Benton Circuit one year, at the close of which the active labor of his life ceased. Ilis <leath occurred Sept. 21, 1872, in Marion County, 111. Mr. Kicbardson was a plain, practical, and earnest preacher, and a prudent disciplinarian.— J//'«- utea ii/ Anni/id <'<»if. 1872, p. l.".(;.
Richardson, James Monroe, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Carroll County, Miss., in 1829. He went to Mississippi College, where he graduated in 1849, and entere<l the Union Theological Seminary and passed through the fidl course, graduating in 1852. He was ordained in 18.')3, and became a stated supply of the Church al .Marion, Miss., where he reniainod five years, and liegan the profession of teacher in En- terprise, Miss, In 18G0 he supplied the Church at Flower's Place, Miss. After this he entered the Con-
federate army as an officer, and was killed in battle in Georgia in 1864. (W. P. S.)
Richardson, J. Clark, a Presbyterian minister, was i)()rn in East ^^■inllsor, Conn., in 1822. He spent some time in Yale College, but was compelled to dis- continue because of sickness. Subsequently he passed a year, in the double character of pupil and tutor, in the University of Knoxville, Tenn. In 1847 he act- ed as colporteur in Kentucky and Tennessee ; in 1849 he was licenseil by the Presbytery of Tennessee, and was associated with James G. Fee as a missionary un- til 1860, when he acceiited an invitation to Oramel, Alleghany Co., N. Y., where he was ordained by Gen- esee Valley Presbytery, and where he continued his acceptable labors until his removal to Ossian, N. \., in 1865. He died Sept. 30, 1865. Mr. Richardson was a devoted, self-denying minister of the Gospel; in spir- it, humble and retiring; in the maintenance of truth and the discharge of duty, extremelj' conscientious. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. A Imanac, 1866, p. 222. (J. L. S.)