Richard of Northampton (died 13 January 1304) was an English-born Crown servant, judge and cleric in Ireland of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, who ended his career as Bishop of Ferns.
He was a Crown servant by the early 1260s, and clearly a valued one: in the 1280s he received several rewards for his "laudable service" to the Crown, and in 1264 he was granted a pension of three silver marks to be paid annually by the Abbey of St Thomas the Martyr, in Dublin city.
He was appointed an attorney to audit the accounts of the Lord Treasurer of Ireland in the latter year.
One historian states that he has left little trace in the history of the Diocese.
However, a complaint from Bishop Richard to the Lord Chancellor of England in 1285 survives, alleging that the liberties of the Church were being infringed by the hearing of a probate case in the civil courts (such cases were then governed by ecclesiastical law, and were dealt with exclusively in the Church courts).