Joseph Richardson (British politician)

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Joseph Richardson (1755–1803) was a British politician and writer who was a founding member of the Whig Club (1784).[1] Born at Hexham, Northumberland, he was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge in 1774. Richardson was admitted as a student to the Middle Temple in 1781 while continuing to work as a Whig journalist. Richardson represented the borough of Newport in Cornwall.

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  1. ^ Clayton, C. (2004). Richardson, Joseph (1755–1803). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press.