[1] Richardson was a Master of Arts at Queens' College, Cambridge.
[2] He also tutored at George Walker's house in Barking, Essex.
[3] Richardson wrote a logic textbook in the Ramist tradition, The logicians school-master: or, A comment upon Ramus logick.
: By Mr. Alexander Richardson, sometime of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge.
Whereunto are added, his prelections on Ramus his grammer; Taleus his rhetorick; also his notes on physicks, ethicks, astronomy, medicine, and opticks.