[2] Richardson was educated at Tonbridge School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1869.
But when the university season was over, he appeared in five matches for Kent, and scored 50 in the second innings of his first game for the county, against Sussex.
In the 1869 University Match, he made four stumpings and two catches, but he was unsuccessful with the bat in all of his games against Oxford.
[8] In the same season he played against Surrey on two other occasions too, once each for Kent and Middlesex, and also appeared in two Gentlemen v Players games.
[1] He went into business in Mumbai, then called Bombay, and was later chairman of the Anglo-Egyptian Bank and cited as an expert on trade in Egypt.