He lived in New Zealand for less than a decade, and retired to Devon in England, and later to London.
[1] He was educated at Chester Grammar School, at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MD, and Downing College, Cambridge (from where he graduated MA and became a fellow); Richardson never practised as a doctor.
[2][3] Arthur Seymour, Marie's brother, accompanied them to New Zealand and settled in Picton.
[2] According to Henry Sewell's diary, "Mrs Richarson like[d] New Zealand, but the want of Servants [was] the one intolerable grievance.
[1] After his son Ralph (who was a New Zealand MHR from 1871 to 1873) died in Nelson on 22 December 1889,[11] he took in his daughter-in-law and her two small girls.