John Henry Richman
John Henry Richman was a lawyer in the young British colony of South Australia.
Richman, his wife Frances and children Henry John, Sophia, and Frances arrived in South Australia in February 1839 on the Thomas Harrison.
He was Clerk to the Magistrates Bench from 1843, and in February 1846 qualified as a lawyer. From around 1853 to 1856 he had a partnership with W. R. Wigley as Richman & Wigley, solicitors, with offices in Clark's buildings, Hindley Street, then White's Chambers, King William Street.
He was one of the Justices of the Peace appointed in the revised list of 1862.
He owned Icalla Icalla station near Quorn. and "Warnbunga", Watervale, where he lived from 1861 or earlier, and where he died in 1864.
Family
John Henry Richman married Frances Hampton on 11 Jul 1823. Their children included:- Henry John Richman married Mary Nagle. He ran Mount Brown station near Quorn and the Old Lincoln Gap run near Port Augusta, later Pernatty and McDouall Peak stations, further north. Later blind, he died of dropsy at his home on East Terrace, Adelaide.
- Sophia Richman married Sir Walter Watson Hughes in 1841. They had no children.
- Frances Richman married Gavin D Young on 24 October 1861, residence "Arthur Seat", Mount Lofty
- Emily Mason Richman married George Cornelius Gooch on 1 September 1858
- James McKinnon Richman, managed and inherited or was given by his uncle Walter Watson Hughes, property at Watervale, South Australia known as Springvale estate, which Hughes developed as a vineyard, leased by C. A. Sobels to make Spring Vale wines. After the death of Hughes in 1877, Sobels and Hermann Büring purchased the property, later known as Quelltaler. J. M. Richman was a longtime generous supporter of a wide range of worthy charities.
- Olive Richman married James Fergusson on 11 March 1873.