Joseph Richardson

Who was Joseph Richardson?

Joseph Richardson was a Liberal Party politician in England.

He was elected as Member of Parliament for South East Durham at the 1892 general election. He was defeated at the 1895 general election by the Liberal Unionist Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, who he had ousted in 1892. Havelock-Allan died in 1897, and Richardson won the resulting by-election in 1898, but lost his seat again at the 1900 general election.

He died two years later, aged 72.