Robert Richardson (travel writer)
Dr Robert Richardson
FRSE
(1779–5 November 1847) was an early 19th-century Scottish physician remembered as a travel writer.
Life
He was born in
Charles John Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington (Viscount Mountjoy). In 1816 they were further joined by Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore. The three then spent two years travelling Europe, Egypt and Palestine.[1]
Whilst in
Hester Lucy Stanhope
.
He returned to Britain in the summer of 1815, settling in Rathbone Place in London.
In 1818 he was elected a Fellow of the
Patrick Tytler.[2]
He died at home at Gordon Street off Gordon Square in London on 5 November 1847 and is buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery in an unmarked grave (no.2449).
Publications
- Richardson, R. (1822). Travels Along the Mediterranean and Parts Adjacent, In Company with the Earl of Belmore, During the Years 1816-17-18, Extending as Far as the Second Cataract of the Nile, Jerusalem, Damascus, Balbec &c. &c. Vol. 1. London/Edinburgh: T. Cadell/W. Blackwood.
- Richardson, R. (1822). Travels Along the Mediterranean and Parts Adjacent, In Company with the Earl of Belmore, During the Years 1816-17-18, Extending as Far as the Second Cataract of the Nile, Jerusalem, Damascus, Balbec &c. &c. Vol. 2. London/Edinburgh: T. Cadell/W. Blackwood.
References
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Robert Richardson
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
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