Jack Richardson (cricketer)

John 'Jack' Charles Richardson (5 December 1912 — 10 March 1990) was a Scottish first-class cricketer and architect.

The son of James Richardson, a customs and excise officer, and his wife Grace Smith Matheson, he was born in Carron, Morayshire in December 1912.

[1] Pursuing a career as an architect, he undertook an apprenticeship with Sutherland & Taylor in Aberdeen before proceeding to the Aberdeen School of Architecture in 1933, where he studied for the following three years.

[1] Richardson made two appearances in first-class cricket for Scotland in 1953, against Northamptonshire at Peterborough and Yorkshire at Glasgow.

He died there at Woodend Hospital in March 1990 and was survived by his wife, Dorothy, and their daughter, Julia.