Herbert William Richmond
Herbert William Richmond was an English mathematician who studied the Cremona–Richmond configuration. One of his most popular works is an exact construction of the regular heptadecagon in 1893.
Herbert was born on 17 July 1863 in Tottenham, England. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1911. On 22 April 1948, Herbert died in Cambridge, England.
The Richmond surface is named after him.