Linsdall Richardson

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Linsdall Richardson FRSE FGS FLS (1881–1967) was a 20th century British geologist and academic author who was awarded the Lyell Medal in 1937.

Life[]

He was born in Clapham in London in 1881 the son of Rev John Linsdall Richardson (b.1849), then a curate, and his wife, Fanny Sutcliffe of Burnley.^[1] The family moved to Holton, Suffolk in 1882 and to Cratfield in Norfolk in 1884.^[2]

He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol. He spent most of his life as Director of Cheltenham school of Science and Technology. In 1908 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Edward William Prevost, Alexander Morison McAldowie, John Walter Gregory and John Horne.^[3]

In the First World War he worked on conscription with the Ministry of National Service.

He died on New Years Day, 1 January 1967.

He donated a large number of borehole samples of Quaternary sands and gravels to the Cheltenham Museum.^[4]

Publications[]

Geological map from The Country around Moreton-in-Marsh

• Wells and Springs of Warwickshire (1928) Full-text at the Internet Archive
• Wells and Springs of Somerset (1928)
• The Country around Moreton-in-Marsh (1929) Full-text at the Internet Archive
• Wells and Springs in Worcestershire (1930) Full-text at the Internet Archive
• Wells and Springs of Gloucestershire (1930)
• Wells and Springs in Leicestershire (1931) Full-text at the Internet Archive
• The Country around Cirencester (1933) Full-text at the Internet Archive
• Wells and Springs of Herefordshire (1935)
• Geology of the Country around Witney (1946) Full-text at the Internet Archive

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