Alan Richardson, KBE (1905–1975[1]) was a British Anglican priest and academic.
Richardson was educated at Liverpool University, Exeter College, Oxford and Ridley Hall, Cambridge.
[2] Ordained in 1928[3] his first post was as a curate at St Saviour's Liverpool.
He was Vicar of Cambo and then Secretary of the Student Christian Movement.
Later he was a canon of Durham Cathedral then Professor of Christian Theology at the University of Nottingham from 1953 until 1964 when he accepted the position as Dean of York, a post he held until his death.