Thomas Richards (1800 – 18 July 1877) was a Welsh surgeon and journalist who emigrated to Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
[3] He married Hannah Elsemere (née Adams) on 26 November 1828 in St Pancras, London; they had a son and three daughters.
Shortly after Richards arrived in Tasmania, Henry Melville (1799–1873) founded the Hobart Town Magazine.
[11] A significant volume of Richards' recognisable literary work was published in the Hobart Town Magazine.
It is difficult to estimate his complete critical, antiquarian and literary output as he often wrote under pseudonyms, in order to hide the extent of the content of the papers that had come from his pen.
[5] The majority of his short stories had a Welsh background and were set between Barmouth and Dolgellau in the county of his childhood, Merionethshire.