Sir Richard was born in Ireland, became a barrister and served as Recorder of Singapore and Malaca, from 1856-1866.
[4][5] His same-named son was born in Singapore but moved to Ireland with his father at an early age.
In 1896, the first use of x-ray in Ireland was by McCausland when he carried out an operation to remove a needle from the hand of a parlor maid.
[citation needed] In 1923, during the Irish Civil War, the McCausland family fled Ireland to Folkestone, Kent.
Our lives were threatened, especially because our only son, who had trained at Sandhurst Military School, joined the Irish Guards and had taken part in the last battles against the Germans, his heart being all for France.However, Richard and Charlotte McCausland's son, Charles, was a notable Irish cricketer, who played for Ireland between 1922 and 1925.