RICHARDSON, JOHN (1810-1888), store-keeper and politician, was born at Freuchie
Manse, Fifeshire, Scotland, eldest son of Rev. John Richardson, United
Presbyterian minister, and his wife Grace, née Pratt. Educated at parish schools
in Freuchie and Pitlessie and at Cupar Academy, at 16 he was apprenticed to a
linen draper in Kirkcaldy and from 1835 worked in London. In April 1838 he reached
Sydney in the Fergusson; he worked with R. Bourne & Co. for four
years.
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