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He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1798 was appointed to the joint curacies of Saint Mary"s Church, Brading and Saint John the Baptist Church, Yaverland on the Isle of Wight.
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Not long ago, an officer in the navy called upon me, and stated that he had just taken a lodging in the town for his wife and children; and that he had an African, whom he had kept three years in his service. "The lad is a handy fellow," said the officer, "and he has a great desire to be baptized; I have promised him to ask you to do it for him, if you have no objections." "Does he know anything," I replied, "of the principles of the Christian religion?" "O yes, I am sure he does," answered the captain; "for he talks a great deal about it in the kitchen, and often gets laughed at for his pains; but he takes it all very patiently." "Does he behave well as your servant?" "Yes, that he doeshe is as honest and civil a fellow as ever came aboard a ship, or lived in a house." "Was he always so well behaved?" "No!" said the officer; "when I first employed him, he was often very unruly and deceitful; but for the last two years he has been quite like another creature." "Well, sir, I shall be very glad to see him, and think it probable I shall wish to go through a course of instruction and examination, during which I shall be able to form a judgment how far it will be right to admit him to the ordinance of baptism. Can he read?" "Yes," replied his master; "he has been taking great pains to learn to read for some time past, and can make out a chapter in the Bible pretty well, as my maidservant informs me. He speaks English better than many of his countrymen, but you will find it a little broken. When will it be convenient that I should send him over to you?" "Tomorrow afternoon, sir, if you please." "He shall come to you about four o'clock, and you shall see what you can make of him." With this promise he took his leave. I felt glad of an opportunity of instructing a native of that land, whose wrongs and injuries had often caused me to sigh and mourn. At the appointed hour my African disciple arrived. He was a very young-looking man, with a sensible, lively, and pleasing turn of countenance. I asked him to sit down, and said, "Your master informs me that you wish to have some conversation with me respecting Christian baptism?" "Yes, sirI very much wish to be a Christian."
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Legh Richmond imparts wisdom to his children through letters which include lists of good behavior, topical studies and poems. Amidst the swirl of life with twelve children he pleas for closer relationships and hearts that love God. Occasions like birthdays, marriages, ministry, sickness, and death, add gravity to his sentiments. While his counsel is wisdom for children, his loving caring attitude is a good example for parents. The letter from his daughter Fanny recounts Rev. Richmonds last days. It reveals a father who left letters in their rooms as the preferred method of communication. Fanny states that he was a sensitive person who had an excellent perception of the beauty of the outdoors. She closed her letter with her hope for his legacy because the seed of the righteous is not forsaken.
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Legh Richmond 1772-1827 In Legh Richmond's writings you behold the character of the man. His beautiful simplicity, his lively imagination, his tenderness of feeling, his ardent piety were the characteristics of the man which enshrined him in the affections of all who knew him. No man more excelled as a pattern of domestic virtues, than Legh Richmond."
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He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1798 was appointed to the joint curacies of Saint Mary"s Church, Brading and Saint John the Baptist Church, Yaverland on the Isle of Wight.
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 (1807-1812).
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). 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.
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