Richardson, SIR JOHN

Richardson, SIR JOHN, naturalist, was born at Dumfries, November 5, 1787, studied at Edinburgh University, became a navy-surgeon, served in the Arctic expeditions of Parry and Franklin (1819–22 and 1825–27), as well as in the Franklin search expedition of 1848–49, was knighted in 1846, married thrice, and died near Grasmere, June 5, 1865. The most valuable of his books were Fauna Boreali-Americana (4 vols. 1829–37) and Ichthyology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror (1844–48). There is a Life by the Rev. John M'Iraith (1868).