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Legh Richmond
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Born(1772-01-29)29 January 1772
Liverpool
Died8 May 1827(1827-05-08) (aged 55)
Turvey, Bedfordshire
NationalityEnglish
OccupationClergyman
Years active1797-1827
Known forReligious writing
Notable workThe Dairyman's Daughter

Legh Richmond (1772–1827) was a Church of England clergyman and writer. He is noted for tracts, narratives of conversion that innovated in the relation of stories of the poor and female subjects, and which were subsequently much imitated.

childhood of the period, and by misprision sometimes taken as models for parental conversation and family life, for example by novelists, against Richmond's practice.[2][3]

Plaque in Brading church commemorating Richmond and his work

Life

He was born on 29 January 1772, in

St. John the Baptist Church, Yaverland on the Isle of Wight. He was ordained priest in February 1798.[4][5]

Richmond was powerfully influenced by

London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews[6]
and similar institutions.

In 1805 Richmond became assistant-chaplain to the

Walter Augustus Shirley, while teaching his own sons, but was not effectual and passed tuition on to his curates.[9][10]

Richmond was instrumental in unmasking the imposter

Ann Moore, the "fasting woman" of Tutbury, in 1813.[4] In 1814 he was appointed[11] chaplain to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820), father of Queen Victoria.[12]

Richmond died on 8 May 1827.[4] His funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. Thomas Fry of Emberton, a close friend.[13]

Legacy

Richmond was one of the first clergymen to found a village

Friendly Society. The Turvey Friendly Society was formed to give wages to the poor when they were sick and could not work.[14]

Works

It was in Turvey that Richmond began to write stories based on material he had collected while living in the Isle of Wight. These were simple tales about country folk.

Christian Guardian between 1809 and 1814. 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 by the Religious Tract Society in 1814 under the title of Annals of the Poor. Sixteen years after Richmond's death, the engraver George Brannon[15] published a supplement to Annals of the Poor under the title The Landscape Beauties of the Isle of Wight (1843).[16]

Richmond also edited a series of Reformation theological works, with biographies, in eight volumes called Fathers of the English Church (1807–12).[17]

Tracts

  • The Dairyman's Daughter
  • The history of little Jane,[18] the young cottager
  • The Negro servant
  • A Visit to the Infirmary
  • The history of Mary Watson & Jenny Mortimer, two Sunday-School girls : founded on facts
  • The African widow; being the history of a poor black woman : showing how she grieved for the death of her child, and the consequences of her doing so.
  • Annals of the Poor, 1814
  • The Orphan (for a juvenile audience)

Other

  • Memoir of Miss Hannah Sinclair, (eldest daughter of the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, bart.) who died, May 22, 1818.
  • Walk circumspectly; or, Rules for Christian Conduct
  • Is the 'doctrinal, practical, experimental' system of the Rev. Legh Richmond, the 'true, Scriptural, Evangelical Religion,' as it professes to be, while all others are mere imitations and assumptions of that title?. (London, 1829)

Books

  • The Fathers of the English Church: or, A selection from the writings of the reformers and early protestant divines of the Church of England, series edited Richmond. This series appeared in eight volumes, from 1807 to 1812, was unsuccessful in financial terms, leaving Richmond with debts, which were met by supporters in 1814.[4] The work of republication was later taken up by the Parker Society.[19]

Sermons

  • A Sermon [on Luke xiii. 3][20] preached in the Parish Church of Brading ... on February 27, 1799, being the Day appointed for a General Fast.
  • A Sermon [on Gen. i. 26] on the sin of cruelty towards the brute creation; preached ... February 15, 1801.
  • A Sermon [on John xxi. 16] preached at the Parish Church of
    Society for Missions to Africa and the East
    , instituted by members of the Established Church, being their ninth anniversary.
  • Reflections, suggested by the close of the year : being a sermon preached at Brading in the Isle of Wight, on the last Sunday of the year.

Letters

The following items are also listed in WorldCat.

  • Letter from Legh Richmond to Samuel Hope (1815)
  • Letter from Legh Richmond to
    Thomas Burgess
    (1816)
  • 2 letters from Legh Richmond to William Wilberforce (1803,1804)
  • Letter from Legh Richmond to Samuel Whitbread (1814)
  • Letter from Legh Richmond to Harris Cawes (1806)
  • Letter from Legh Richmond to Lord Bolton (1803)
  • Letter from Legh Richmond to Rev. S. Hillyard
  • Letter from Legh Richmond to Rev. W. Renton (1825)
  • Letter from Legh Richmond to Chauncy Hare Townshend
  • Letter from Legh Richmond to Joseph John Gurney (1826)
  • Autograph letter signed : Brading, Isle of Wight, to Hannah More, 1804 Jan. 17.
  • Autograph letter signed : to Mr. Relfe, 1826 Feb. 6.
  • Legh Richmond letters, 1807-1815 [21]

Biographers

Numerous lives of Richmond have been published. Domestic Portraiture (1833) by his close friend Thomas Fry related to the Richmond household, and in particular the two oldest sons.[4] The Rev. Legh Richmond's letters and counsels to his children (1848),[22] edited by his daughter Fanny Richmond, [citation needed], drew on Domestic Portraiture. A life by John Ayre was included in editions of Annals of the Poor.[23]

Family

Richmond in 1797 married Mary Chambers (died 1873), daughter of James William Chambers of Bath. They had 12 children, of whom eight survived their father. Two of the sons, Nugent and Wilberforce, died in 1825.[4]

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-19-957213-7
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  2. ISBN 978-0-19-818761-5
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  3. ISBN 978-0-227-68034-6
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  4. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23595. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  5. ^ "Richmond, Legh (RCMT789L)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  6. ^ The Jewish Expositor and Friend of Israel: Containing Monthly Communications Respecting the Jews and the Proceedings of the London Society, Volume 5
  7. ^ The Life of Rev. Legh Richmond, Author of the Dairyman's Daughter, Young Cottager, Etc: Compiled from Authentic Sources. G. Lane & P.P. Sandford. 1842. pp. 50–1.
  8. ^ "Presentation Deed: Turvey (Bedfordshire), Rectory, Lincs to the Past". Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  9. Burgon, John William (1888). "Lives of Twelve Good Men". Internet Archive
    . London: Murray. pp. 360–1. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  10. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25439. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  11. ^ "CCED: Person Display".
  12. ^ Grimshawe, Thomas Shuttleworth, A Memoir of the Rev. Legh Richmond, A.M., of Trinity College, Cambridge; Rector of Turvey, Bedfordshire; and chaplain to his Royal Highness the late Duke of Kent
  13. ^ Munby, G. F. W.; Thomas Wright of Olney (1893). "Turvey and the Mordaunts, with some account of Legh Richmond and his connection with Turvey". Internet Archive. London: F. Kirby. p. 44. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  14. ^ "Leigh Richmond - People - Digitised Resources - the Virtual Library".
  15. ^ Brannon, George, on Island Eye
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ "Cyclopaedia bibliographica : A library manual of theological and general literature, and guide to books for authors, preachers, students, and literary men. Analytical, bibliographical, and biographical". 1854.
  18. ^ Identified as Jane Squibb in some editions.
  19. ^ A General Index to the publications of the Parker Society. Cambridge University Press. 1855. p. iii.
  20. ^ Amplified title: The miseries of surrounding nations an awful warning to Britain
  21. ^ This collection consists of three letters. Two letters are from 1807 and are addressed to a Reverend Aspland in Cambridge, who appears to be a librarian. In the first letter, dated 20 July 1807, Richmond tells Aspland that a Dr. Jowet has advised him to borrow several books from the library. He refers to works by several men, calling them martyrs. The second letter from Richmond to Aspland is dated 21 October 1807 (from WorldCat record).
  22. ^ Selected from his memoir and "Domestic portraiture"; with an account of the closing scene of his life.
  23. ^ Jared Sparks; Edward Everett; James Russell Lowell; Henry Cabot Lodge (1861). The North American Review. University of Northern Iowa. p. 265.
  24. ISBN 978-0-8028-3714-1
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  25. ^ The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review. F. and C. Rivington. 1830. p. 154.
  26. ^ "Life of Legh Richmond: Bedell, Gregor Townsend, 1793-1834". Retrieved 5 March 2017 – via Internet Archive.
  27. ^ "Catalog Record: The life of Rev. Legh Richmond, author of the... , Hathi Trust Digital Library". Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  28. ISBN 978-1-941281-79-6
    .
  29. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18138. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  30. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine. A. Dodd and A. Smith. 1845. p. 523.
  31. ^ Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe (1844). A Memoir of the Rev. Legh Richmond ... M.W. Dodd. p. 297.
  32. ^ "Ayre, John (AR819J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  33. ^ Sylvanus Urban (1825). The Gentleman's Magazine. p. 189.
  34. ^ "Richmond, Henry Sylvester (RCMT827HS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  35. ^ a b c d e Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester. Chetham Society. 1879. p. 193.
  36. ^ Gentleman's Magazine, Or Monthly Intelligencer. Edward Cave. 1838. p. 454.

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