Arthur John Richardson

06/05/1922 — 16/02/2004
A brief biography

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Charles Richardson
Charles Richardson 1787 — 1862
William Pengilley Richardson 1823 — 1895
William Charles Richardson 1851 — 1924
Arthur Maurice Richardson 1888 — 1980
Arthur John Richardson 1922 — 2004
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Arthur John Richardson


Son of Arthur Maurice Richardson and Gertrude Louisa Owen. .

Born in 1922, the twelfth year of the reign of King George V, and died aged eighty-one in the fifty-second year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II  He has 6 direct descendants in the family.

Early Years


Arthur John Richardson was second child of Arthur and Gertrude Richardson and their only son. At the outbreak of the Second World War he was a 17-year-old student a Rugby Public School in Warwickshire.
He was enlisted into the army late in the War and sent to Italy and Greece where he saw little action. After the War he followed his father into Lloyds of London and became a Marine Underwriter.
In September 1950 he married Bettine (Betty) Richardson in Bletchingley Church in Surrey, one of the witnesses being his lifetime friend John Penn.

CHARITIES

John Richardson was always involved in charities. Soon after the War Bob Chudley got John involved in the Telephones For The Blind Fund and John was instrumental in turning this from a local charity into a national charity funding telephones for blind people all over the country. The annual carol singing event involved an intense two or three nights where a flotilla of cars would travel the Surrey countryside carrying a merry troupe of blind carol singers from one wealthy country house to another raising a considerable proportion of the Fund's annual revenue. As well as this he was a lifetime fundraiser for the Lifeboat Institute.


The Marine Underwriter


With Amanda

John Richardson spent his entire adult life in one employment, as a Lead Underwriter for the English & American Insurance Company, part of the Bowrings group, commuting daily, for about forty years, from Merstham to London Bridge.
Living first in a rented flat in Redhill, the family moved to Salfords in Surrey while their house above Reigate Heath was being built.
Named Springfield after the wood floor imported from Springfield, Missouri, this was the family home for the next forty years, John and Betty both enjoyed gardening and John mowed the lawn most weekends. An open swimming pool was built in the back garden.
By the time Betty's parents passed away the children had all moved on so in 1977 John and Betty moved to Elmhurst in Bletchingley and embarked on their next project, turning two terraced cottages of Little Coldharbour, with its stunning views to the Weald, into a single house, where they spent the rest of their lives.
After Betty passed away in 1988 John continued to live in Bletchingley and helped out in the Friends' café at Redhill General Hospital. He enjoyed travelling to Brazil to spend time with his granddaughter Amanda.

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