Raymond Richardson

Raymond William Richardson, was a Church of England priest and former Royal Navy chaplain. He was Chaplain of the Fleet, [Royal Navy Chaplaincy Services|Director General of the Naval Chaplaincy Service] and Archdeacon for the Royal Navy from 1963 to 1966.
The son of The Rev William Archibald Richardson, sometime incumbent of St. [Peter's Church, Ennisnag, Kilkenny], Richardson was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained deacon in 1935 and priest in 1936. He served curacies at List of [civil parishes of Ireland|Ardamine] and Queenstown. He married Jocelyn Carroll in 1939: they had three sons. As a Naval chaplain he served aboard,, HMS Osprey,, HMS Heron, HMS Gannet,, HMS Condor, HM [Prison Ford|HMS Peregrine],, HMS Vernon and then at HM Dockyard, Portsmouth.