Created a life peer in 1998,[2] she served as a crossbench member of the House of Lords until 2018.

She trained for ordained ministry at the Deaconess College in Ilkley and at Wesley House in Cambridge.

[2] As a peer, Richardson was active in the House of Lords from 3 August 1998 until her retirement on 20 December 2018.

It wants to see a more compassionate approach to dying in the UK, including giving people the legal right to a medically assisted death if that is their persistent wish [7] In 1964, she married Ian David Godfrey Richardson.

[3] In the 1996 New Year Honours, Richardson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for services to the Methodist community".