Background
He was born at Tulse Hill in July 1775 and started a legal career, but left it early for scholarly and literary pursuits. He died at Feltham on Friday, 6 October 1865, and was buried in his mother"s grave at Clapham.
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Charles Richardson
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He kept a school on Clapham Common, and among his pupils there were Charles James Mathews, who assisted Richardson as a copyist, John Mitchell Kemble, and John Maddison Morton, the dramatist. Richardson gave up his school after 1827, and then lived at Lower Tulse Hill, Norwood. Before 1859 he moved to 23 Torrington Square in London.
In 1853 a pension of £75 a year was granted to him from the civil list.
A bust of John Horne Tooke at University College, London, by Francis Leggatt Chantrey, was bequeathed by him.
