Jonathan Richardson (MP)

Jonathan Richardson (born 1804) was an Irish politician. He was a member of the Quaker Richardson family and a relative of James Nicholson Richardson MP and Jonathan Joseph Richardson MP.^[1]

He was elected as a Member of Parliament for Lisburn in 1857, and again in 1859 as a Conservative, resigning in 1863.

Richardson lived at Kirkcassock House, County Down, which was designed by Alfred Waterhouse, ca. 1865.^[2]

Arms[edit]

Coat of arms of Jonathan Richardson
Notes Granted 9 February 1881 by Sir John Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms. Crest A lion rampant Argent armed and langued Gules holding between the paws a laurel garland Proper. Escutcheon Argent on a fess engrailed per saltire Azure and Gules between in chief a bull's head couped of the third and in base a galley Proper four escallops two in fess and two in pale Or. Motto Virtute Acquiritur Honos^[3]

Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B. M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885, edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)

^ Walker suggests J.J. Richardson (elected 1853), was a different person from Jonathan Richardson (elected as a Whig in 1857 and as a Conservative in 1859). Stenton, whose entry for the MP is mostly based upon the 1862 edition of Dod's Parliamentary Companion, states that Jonathan Richardson was "First returned for Lisburn Oct. 1853, and sat until he accepted Chiltern Hundreds Feb. 1863", but also notes a distinct Jonathan Joseph Richardson, MP for Lisburn August 1853 to 1857; the dates confusingly overlap. Contemporary newspaper reports indicate that the two were distinct; see Belfast News-Letter 1 April 1857 and Northern Whig 2 April 1857.
^ Dictionary of Irish Architects
^ "Grants and Confirmations of Arms, Vol. H,". National Library of Ireland. p. 636. Retrieved 10 August 2022.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Jonathan Joseph Richardson	Member of Parliament for Lisburn 1857–1863	Succeeded by John Doherty Barbour

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