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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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LEGH

RICHMOND (1772-1827)  ,
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English divine, was born on the 29th of
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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
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Practical View of
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Christianity, and took a prominent
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interest in the
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British and
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Foreign Bible Society, the Church Missionary Society and similar institutions . In 1805 he became assistant-
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chaplain to the Lock Hospital,
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London, and rector of Turvey, Bedfordshire, where he remained till his
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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
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languages were circulated before 1849 . A collected edition of his stories of
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village
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life was first published in 1814 under the title of Annals of the Poor . He also edited a series of Reformation
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biographies called Fathers of the English Church (1807–12) . See
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Memoirs by T . S . Grimshawe (1828) ; Domestic
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Portraiture by T . Fry (1833) .

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