Raymond William Richardson, London Gazette (16 October 1909 – 11 August 1968)Obituary. The Reverend Raymond William Richardson, C.B. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Aug 13, 1968; pg. 8; Issue 57328 was a Church of England priest and former Royal Navy chaplain. He was Chaplain of the Fleet, Director General of the Naval Chaplaincy Service and Archdeacon for the Royal Navy from 1963Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Friday, Jan 11, 1963; pg. 12; Issue 55596 to 1966.Chaplain Of The Fleet. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Dec 01, 1965; pg. 14; Issue 56493
The son of The Rev William Archibald Richardson, sometime incumbent of St. Peter's Church, Ennisnag, Kilkenny,Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929–30 London: Oxford University Press, 1929 Richardson was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained deacon in 1935 and priest in 1936.Crockford's Clerical Directory1947–48 Oxford, OUP,1947 He served curacies at Ardamine and Queenstown. He married Jocelyn Carroll in 1939:Marriages. The Times (London, England), Monday, Jun 19, 1939; pg. 17; Issue 48335 they had three sons. As a Naval chaplain he served aboard , , HMS Osprey, , HMS Heron, HMS Gannet, , HMS Condor, HMS Peregrine, , HMS Vernon and then at HM Dockyard, Portsmouth.‘RICHARDSON, Rev. Raymond William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 27 May 2017
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