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LEGH RICHMOND (1772-1827)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 307 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHMOND (1772-1827)  , See also:English divine, was See also:born on the 29th of See also:January 1772, at See also:Liverpool . He was educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and in 1798 was appointed to the See also:joint curacies of Brading and Yaverland in the Isle of See also:Wight . He was powerfully influenced by See also:William See also:Wilberforce's See also:Practical View of See also:Christianity, and took a prominent See also:interest in the See also:British and See also:Foreign See also:Bible Society, the See also:Church Missionary Society and similar institutions . In 1805 he became assistant-See also:chaplain to the See also:Lock See also:Hospital, See also:London, and See also:rector of Turvey, See also:Bedfordshire, where he remained till his See also:death on the 8th of May 1827 . The best known of his writings is The Dairyman's Daughter, of which as many as four millions in nine-teen See also:languages were circulated before 1849 . A collected edition of his stories of See also:village See also:life was first published in 1814 under the See also:title of See also:Annals of the Poor . He also edited a See also:series of See also:Reformation See also:biographies called Fathers of the English Church (1807–12) . See See also:Memoirs by T . S . Grimshawe (1828) ; Domestic See also:Portraiture by T . See also:Fry (1833) .

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