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