Linsdall Richardson


Linsdall Richardson was a 20th-century British geologist and academic author who was awarded the Lyell Medal in 1937.

Life

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

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