The New International Encyclopædia/Richmond, Legh

RICHMOND, Legh (1772-1827). An English writer and evangelical divine, born in Liverpool. He graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge (1794); was ordained to the curacy of Brading and Yaverland in the Isle of Wight (1799); became chaplain to the Lock Hospital, London (1805), and the same year rector of Turvey in Bedfordshire. He was an earnest evangelical preacher. Between 1809 and 1814 he contributed to the Christian Guardian three famous village tales—“The Dairyman's Daughter,” “The Young Cottager,” and “The Negro Servant.” All three were reprinted in 1814 as The Annals of the Poor. Before 1849 4,000,000 copies of the Dairyman's Daughter had been issued in nineteen languages. Richmond published also Fathers of the English Church, and after his death appeared Domestic Portraiture. Consult the Life by Grimshaw (London, 1828; ed. by G. T. Bedell, Philadelphia, 1846).