Alderman Sir Richard Stephenson Harper, JP (30 December 1902 – 16 November 1973) was an English local politician.
[2] He attended Manchester and Chorlton-cum-Hardy Grammar Schools, before studying at Bonar Law College in Hertfordshire.
[1] In business, he worked in electrical and general engineering from 1920 to 1925 (he was later director of the Manchester Ship Canal Company), when he became Private Secretary to his father.
He also contested the Exchange seat for the Conservatives in the 1950 general election and was a justice of the peace for Manchester from 1949.
He died on 16 November 1973, leaving a son and a widow, his wife Lily, the only daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Walker of Manchester.