Charles Richardson

(1775-1865)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Richardson, Charles, 1775-1865 DNB: Richardson, Charles (1775–1865), lexicographer LBT ID: ChRicha1865 VIAF ID: 8167565 LOC ID: no97056776	B/BAP: 1775-07 DIED: 1865-11-06
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English lexicographer and schoolmaster at Clapham Common, author of New English Dictionary (1835-37); in 1835 he married Elizabeth Terry, widow of the actor Daniel Terry.
REFERENCES TO Charles Richardson: Sir Walter Scott to Sophia Lockhart, 24 October 1828 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ n1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1828 Found 1: ¶ n1 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VIII 1803-05 Found 1: ¶ 5