Robert Richardson (1 February 1862 – 28 December 1943) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Richardson was educated at Ryhope National School before becoming a coal miner in 1871, serving as a checkweighman from 1900.
[1] His entry in the Times House of Commons 1919 noted that he had 'worked at all kind of jobs in the pit'.
[2] Richardson held the seat until the 1931 general election, when Labour split over budgetary policy and its leader Ramsay MacDonald left the party to form a National Government.
His Conservative Party successor Robert Chapman served only one term in Parliament, as Labour regained the seat at the 1935 general election; but Richardson did not stand again after his defeat.