Richmond, LEGH, author of the Dairymen's Daughter, was born at Liverpool, 29th January 1772, and while a child was lamed for life by leaping from a wall. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was appointed in 1798 to the joint curacies of Brading and Yaverland in the Isle of Wight, in 1805 to the rectory of Turvey in Bedfordshire, where he died, 8th May 1827. He wrote
Fathers of the English Church and Domestic Portraiture—memoirs of his three deceased children—and in a happier hour his Dairymen's Daughter, Negro Servant, and Young Cottager, three evangelical tracts which have carried his name over the world. Collected they form Annals of the Poor (1814). See the Memoirs by the Rev. T. S. Grimshawe (1828; ed. by Bishop G. T. Bedell, Phila. 1846).