Linsdall Richardson FRSE FGS FLS (24 December 1881 – 1 January 1967)[1] was a 20th-century British geologist and academic author who was awarded the Lyell Medal in 1937.[2]

Life

Linsdall Richardson was born in Burnley in Lancashire on 24 December 1881.[1] He was the son of Rev John Linsdall Richardson (b.1849), then a curate, and his wife, Fanny Sutcliffe of Burnley.[3] The family moved to Holton, Suffolk in 1882 and to Cratfield in Norfolk in 1884.[4]

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.[5]

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.[6]

Publications

Geological map from The Country around Moreton-in-Marsh

References

  1. 1 2 F.B.A.W. (1967). "Linsdall Richardson, F.R.S.E., F.G.S.". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 78 (2): 379–381. doi:10.1016/S0016-7878(67)80026-9.
  2. ↑ "Lyell Medal". The Geological Society of London. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  3. ↑ Manchester Courier 27 September 1879
  4. ↑ "Biographical". 1935.
  5. ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  6. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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