Richardson, Charles, lexicographer; was trained for the bar, but took to literature and education; pensioned in 1852; his chief works are “Illustrations of English Philology” and the “New Dictionary of the English Language” (1837), according to Trench the best dictionary of his day (1775‒1865).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Richardson, Sir Benjamin Ward * Richardson, Sir John, M.D.