Linetta de Castelvecchio Richardson

Linetta Palamidessi de Castelvecchio Richardson (13 October 1880 – 4 June 1975) was an Italian-British scholar.

However, there were allegations that favouritism won her the position, and the university refused to allow her to hire assistants to teach Italian from scratch while also insisting that the post was only part-time and paid her accordingly.

[2][3] Her parents were Francesco Palamidessi (1849-1891) and Joséphine Castelvecchio (1857-1932), grand-daughter of Louis Bonaparte, king of Holland.

While in London, she converted from Roman Catholicism to Anglicanism and became involved in the Churchmen's Union for the Advancement of Liberal Religious Thought.

[2] In 1929, she married the Reverend Robert Douglas Richardson (1893–1989), an Anglican priest and academic,[4] later a canon of Birmingham Cathedral and principal of Ripon Hall, Oxford.