The New Student's Reference Work/Richmond, Leigh

Richmond, Leigh, English clergyman, author of The Dairyman's Daughter, was born at Liverpool, Jan. 29, 1772, and while a child was lamed for life by leaping from a wall. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and after filling the joint curacies of Brading and Yaverland in the Isle of Wight for a number of years, in 1805 he was appointed to the rectory of Turvey, Bedfordshire, where he died on May 8, 1827. Besides The Dairyman's Daughter he wrote The Negro Servant and The Young Cottager. The three tracts have carried his name over the civilized world. Collected, they form The Annals of the Poor.