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ALFRED BATE RICHARDS (182o-1876)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 299 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALFRED BATE See also:RICHARDS (182o-1876)  , See also:English journalist, was See also:born in See also:Worcestershire on the 17th of See also:February 1820, and was educated at See also:Westminster School and See also:Exeter See also:College, See also:Oxford . After taking his degree in 1841 he published, anonymously, Oxford Unmasked, a denunciation of abuses in the university . Between 1845 and 1848 he wrote several dramas and some See also:poetry, and in the latter See also:year became editor of a weekly See also:news-See also:paper; the See also:British See also:Army Despatch . His temperament was strongly Imperialist; he opposed See also:Cobden and the See also:Manchester school of politicians, and in a See also:volume entitled See also:Britain Redeemed and See also:Canada Preserved predicted, See also:thirty years before the event, the construction of the See also:Canadian Pacific railway . In 1855 he was appointed the first editor of the See also:London Daily See also:Telegraph, and through the See also:medium of that See also:journal strongly urged the formation of volunteer See also:rifle See also:corps . The See also:National and Constitutional See also:Defence Association was established in 1858 to carry out the See also:idea . See also:Richards himself raised a See also:regiment of a thousand working men in London, becoming See also:major and subsequently See also:colonel of the corps . In 187o he was appointed editor of the London See also:Morning Advertiser, and retained this position till his See also:death on the 12th of See also:June 1876 .

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