Linsdall Richardson FRSE FGS FLS (24 December 1881 – 1 January 1967)[1] was a 20th-century British geologist and academic author who was awarded the Lyell Medal in 1937.[2]
Linsdall Richardson was born in Burnley in Lancashire on 24 December 1881.[1] He was the son of Rev John Linsdall Richardson (b.1849), then a curate, and his wife, Fanny Sutcliffe of Burnley.[3] The family moved to Holton, Suffolk in 1882 and to Cratfield in Norfolk in 1884.[4]
He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol. He spent most of his life as Director of Cheltenham school of Science and Technology. In 1908 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Edward William Prevost, Alexander Morison McAldowie, John Walter Gregory and John Horne.[5]
In the First World War he worked on conscription with the Ministry of National Service.
He died on New Years Day, 1 January 1967.
He donated a large number of borehole samples of Quaternary sands and gravels to the Cheltenham Museum.[6]
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