George Canning Richardson

1855 — 21/07/1892
A brief biography

Ancestors


Charles Richardson
Charles Richardson 1787 — 1862
Charles Richardson 1817 — 1890
George Canning Richardson 1855 — 1892
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Emily Parker —   Nigel (Texas) Canning Richardson 1880 — 1917   Alice Violet Richardson 1881 —   Amy Mafanwy Richardson 1885 — 1902  

George Canning Richardson


Son of Charles Richardson and Selina Ellis. .

Born in 1855, the eighteenth year of the reign of Queen Victoria, and died aged thirty-seven in the fifty-fifth year of the reign of Queen Victoria  He has 13 direct descendants in the family.

Welsh Connection


George Canning Richardson was born in 1855 in Shepherd's Bush, Middlesex, his father, Charles Richardson II , the London Brick and Cement manufacturer, was 38 and his mother, Selina Ellia, was 45.

George was articled to the architect Arthur Vernon in High Wycombe from 1873 to 1876 and in independent practice by 1879, the same year he married Emily Parker in Highbury, Somerset.

Emily and George had three children during their marriage.

At the time of the 1881 Census, living as an architect above the railway station at 1 Abbey Rd, Llangollen, Denbigh, Wales
He died on 21 July 1892 in Middlesex at the age of 37.

Pen-y-bont Brick & Tile Works

Cefn-mawr The Pen-y-bont Brick & Tile Works of James Coster Edwards (1828-96) was established in 1865. J. C. Edwards instigated the annual Edwards Terracotta Competition in 1880, to promote the use of terracotta in architectural design, and several prizewinning entries appeared in the firm’s 1890 catalogue. In 1882 he built a block of four model cottages near the entrance of the Pen-y-bont Works; they were designed by George Canning Richardson, head of J. C. Edwards’ design department, and acted as advertisements for the firm’s products. The occupants were the works managers of the terracotta, encaustic tile, blue brick and roofing tile departments. Along with terracotta blocks lying amidst the overgrown ruins, these cottages and a few office buildings (on the east side of the B5605, opposite Newbridge) are all that remain of the vast works, which finally ceased to function in 1961.

George wrote a paper on the history of Valle Crucis Abbey which was read during a visit by the British Archaeological Association on 11/08/1886.


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