Richards, Alfred Bate, journalist and author; turned from law to literature; author of a number of popular dramas, volumes of poems, essays, &c.; was the first editor of the Daily Telegraph, and afterwards of the Morning Advertiser; took an active interest in the volunteer movement (1820‒1876).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Richard of Cirencester * Richardson, Sir Benjamin Ward