John Richardson (Archdeacon of Derby)

The Ven. John Farquhar Richardson, MA (23 April 1905- 29 April 1991) was Archdeacon of Derby from 1952 to 1973; and an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen during the same period.

He was educated at Winchester and Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Westcott House, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon in 1929 and priest in 1930. His first post was as a Curate at Holy Trinity, Cambridge. He was Chaplain of Repton School from 1932 to 1935; Curate of St Martin-in-the-Fields from 1935 to 1936; Vicar of Christ Church, Hampstead from 1936 to 1941; and Rector of Bishopwearmouth from 1941 to 1952.

Family

He was the son of William Henry Richardson and his wife Gertrude Mary Alice née Walker.
On the 18th of July 1936 he married Elizabeth Mary Dean in the Church of St. Mary the Great, Cambridge.
She was daughter of Dr. Henry Roy Dean, Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and his wife Irene née Wilson.

Notes

Cricket Archive
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‘RICHARDSON, Ven. John Farquhar’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 1 Dec 2013
Crockford's Clerical Directory 1947/48 Oxford, OUP, 1947 pp 1105
The Times (London, England), Monday, Jan 20, 1936; pg. 15; Issue 47276
London Gazette

Church of England titles
Preceded byHenry Edward FitzHerbert	Archdeacon of Derby 1952–1973	Succeeded byRobert Sydney Dell

v t e Archdeacons in the Diocese of Derby
Derby (High Medieval)	G. Richard Froger N. Godfrey de Luci Yvo Vivian de Stagno William de Muschamp William de Luteby David de Sancta Frideswida William de Weston Simon Jordan de Wymburne Elias de Napton
Derby (Late Medieval)	Geoffrey de Blaby/Glaston Anthony de Monte Peliologo John de Asheby John de Marisco Hugh de Marisco Robert de Stretton William Lombe John de Outheby Walter Bullock John Bride William Chauntre Edmund Hals
Derby (Early modern)	Nicholas West John Taylor Richard Strete David Pole John Ramridge Richard Walker Laurence Nowell Luke Gilpin Walter Marsh John Walton Valentine Overton Christopher Helme Samuel Clerk William Higgins Thomas Brown/Browne Francis Ashenhurst Thomas Goodwin Henry Ryder Sneyd Davies Henry Egerton
Derby (Late modern)	James Falconer Edmund Outram Samuel Butler Francis Hodgson Walter Shirley Thomas Hill Southwell diocese: Edward Balston Henry Freer Edward Were Derby diocese: Edward Noakes Henry FitzHerbert John Richardson Robert Dell Ian Gatford Christopher Cunliffe Peter Walley (acting) Archdeaconry dissolved, 2022
Chesterfield	Edmond Crosse Geoffrey Clayton Talbot Dilworth-Harrison Ingram Cleasby Gerald Phizackerley David Garnett Christine Wilson Tony Kaunhoven (acting) Carol Coslett (became Archdeacon of Derbyshire Peak and Dales) Archdeaconry dissolved, 2022
2022 archdeaconries	Carol Coslett, Archdeacon of Derbyshire Peak and Dales (previously Archdeacon of Chesterfield) Matthew Trick, Archdeacon of Derby City and South Derbyshire Karen Hamblin, Archdeacon of East Derbyshire Nicky Fenton, Archdeacon of Derbyshire Peak and Dales

v t e Diocese of Derby
Derby Cathedral Bishop's House, Duffield Derby Church House, Derby
Office holders	Libby Lane, Bishop of Derby Malcolm Macnaughton, Bishop suffragan of Repton AEO: Paul Thomas, Bishop suffragan of Oswestry & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Peter Robinson, Dean of Derby Matthew Trick, Archdeacon of Derby City and South Derbyshire Karen Hamblin, Archdeacon of East Derbyshire Nicky Fenton, Archdeacon of Derbyshire Peak and Dales
Historic offices	Archdeacon of Derby (1927–2002; previously in the Dioceses of Lichfield and of Southwell) Archdeacon of Chesterfield (1927–2002; previously in Southwell diocese) Provost of Derby (1931–2000; see Dean of Derby)

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