A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Richardson, John (a)
RICHARDSON. (Commander, 1802. f-p., 17; h-p., 48.)
John Richardson (a) died about the commencement of 1848.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 March, 1782, as Midshipman, on board the Lenox, Capt. Wm. Bennet, lying at Cork; and was afterwards, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 3 Nov. 1790, employed on the Channel and West India stations in the Artois, Capt. John Macbride, Hyaena 24, Capt. P. Sinclair, Crown 64, Capt. Chas. Morice Pole, Expedition 44, Capts. Chetwynd and Brown, Cumberland 74, Capt. J. Macbride, and Victory 100, Capt. John Knight. Between Sept. 1792 and the date of his advancement to the rank of Commander 29 April, 1802, he served in the West Indies, at Halifax, in the Mediterranean, off Lisbon, and in the North Sea and Channel, on board the Fairy sloop, Capt. Fras. Laforey, Adventure 44, Capt. Edw. Buller, Zealous 74, Capts. Mason, Lord Hervey, and Sam. Hood, Salvador del Mondo, Capt. Wm. Prowse, Belliqueux 64, Capt. John Inglis, Ruby 64, Capts. Gardner and Ferris, and, for a few months, in command of the Censor gun-vessel and Swift cutter. From Sept. 1804 until some time in 1805 he commanded the Albion armed ship in the Channel. He did not afterwards go afloat. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.