Linsdall Richardson

Linsdall Richardson FRSE FGS FLS (1881–1967) was a 20th century British geologist and academic author who was awarded the Lyell Medal in 1937.

Life

He was born in Clapham in London in 1881 the son of Rev John Linsdall Richardson (b.1849), then a curate, and his wife, Fanny Sutcliffe of Burnley.^[1] The family moved to Holton, Suffolk in 1882 and to Cratfield in Norfolk in 1884.^[2]

He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol. He spent most of his life as Director of Cheltenham school of Science and Technology. In 1908 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Edward William Prevost, Alexander Morison McAldowie, John Walter Gregory and John Horne.^[3]

In the First World War he worked on conscription with the Ministry of National Service.

He died on New Years Day, 1 January 1967.

He donated a large number of borehole samples of Quaternary sands and gravels to the Cheltenham Museum.^[4].

Publications

• Wells and Springs of Warwickshire (1928)
• Wells and Springs of Somerset (1928)
• The Country around Moreton-in-Marsh (1929)
• Wells and Springs in Worcestershire (1930)
• Wells and Springs of Gloucestershire (1930)
• Wells and Springs in Leicestershire (1931)
• The Country around Cirencester (1933)
• Wells and Springs of Herefordshire (1935)
• Geology of the Country around Whitney (1946)

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