Henry Downing Richardson (b. c. 1817 d. 1849)

Irish naturalist and writer. Son of Alexander Richardson and Lucinda Siree, who married in Dublin in 1816. Lived in Edinburgh in his youth; member of the Holyrood Gymnastic Club and a champion in the running high leap, 1836. Resident in Dublin, 1840s. Wrote on deer, dogs, bees, pigs, horses, and boys’ sports. His niece was the Australian writer Henry Handel Richardson.