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John Larkins Cheese Richardson | Photograph from the Stafford collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, for the Department of Internal Affairs' publication 'Making New Zealand' (1939-1940). Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative | Not specified | TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library | |
John Larkins Cheese Richardson (1810-1878) | Photographer: William Henshaw Clarke, 1831-1910 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative | Clarke, William Henshaw, 1831-1910 | TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library | |
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Major The Hon. Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson - The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts] | Major The Hon. Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson , who was a member of the Legislative Council from 1867 to 1879, filled the position of Speaker for nearly the whole of that period. He was a Superintendent of the Province of Otago, and is else where referred to in that capacity. | Cyclopedia Company Limited | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington | |
Major the Hon. Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson - The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District] | Major the Hon. Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Kt., M.L.C., occupied a seat in two Ministries. In the Weld Administration of 1864–5, he was Postmaster-General and Commissioner of Customs, and was a member of the Executive Council, without portfolio, in the second Stafford Ministry, from August, 1866, to May, 1868. Born in Bengal in 1810, an... | Cyclopedia Company Limited | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington | |
The Hon. Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson - The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District] | The Hon. Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Kt., M.L.C., was speaker of the Legislative Council from the first of July, 1868 to the 14th of June, 1879. Sir John held office as a minister of the Crown between the years 1864 and 1869 in the Weld and Stafford Governments. Further particulars of his career will be found under the heading “Ex Mini... | Cyclopedia Company Limited | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington | |
Major Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson - The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts] | Major Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson , the third Superintendent of the Province of Otago, was born in Bengal, on the 4th of August 1810.After receiving his education at Addiscobe College, he returned to India as an artillery caded, and remained in the military service of the East India Company till 1851. He visited New Zealand in 1852, and ... | Cyclopedia Company Limited | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington | |
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Morris, photo — The Late Sir J. L. C. Richardson | The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts] - Major Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson - Morris, photo The Late Sir J. L. C. Richardson . | Cyclopedia Company Limited | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington |
Wrigglesworth, J D (Wellington) fl 1863-1900 :Portrait of Sir John Richardson 1810-1878 | Sir John was Post Master General and Commissioner of Customs (1864-1965) and was appointed Speaker of the Legislative Council 1868 and held post for remainder of his life Inscriptions: Verso - Sir John Richardson. Postmaster General. Afterwards Speaker of the Legislative Council in succession to Mr Bartley Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). | Wrigglesworth, James Dacie, 1836-1906 | TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library | |
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Fox and the grapes, hang it!, I don't want it. | Lower left (l.l.) with brush: Bn; through image with brush: Superintendent; l.c. with brush: The fox and the grapes, hang it!, I dont want it. | Brown, James, 1819?-1877 | Otago University Research Heritage / University of Otago |
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1865 - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 18 | The Session of 1865 commenced on the 26th of July, at Wellington, the new Seat of Government, the necessary arrangements having been made since the previous December for bringing down the whole of the Government Staff' and records, and preparing suitable accommodation for both Houses of the Legislature. The Reply to the Address, which after a fe... | Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington | |
1861 - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 18 | "Another disadvantage of the system of making the Governor chiefly responsible for Native affairs, is, that it will be thought that the wars which may arise under it, have sprung whether rightly or wrongly, from the acts of the Representative of the British Government, over whose proceedings the Colonial Legislature but very imperfect control; s... | Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington | |
[introduction] - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 18 | As the dissolution of the House of Representatives will shortly take place,* and thus my connection with the Electors of Dunedin and Suburbs North will be severed, I take advantage of the opportunity thus afforded me of expressing my views on the various topics which have lately occupied and still engross the public attention; and I do so the m... | Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington | |
1863 - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 18 | The Session of 1863, which commenced on the 19th of October, ushered in a new Ministry, of which it is no detraction to say that it was essentially an Auckland Ministry; for, though Mr. Fox of Wellington had been commissioned by his Excellency to reconstitute the Government, he assumed only the leadership of the House of Representatives and the ... | Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington | |
1862 - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 18 | On the 7th July, 1862; Sir George Grey met the General Assembly for the first time since his return to the country, and the House received him in a spirit of the utmost frankness. Old wounds, connected with the introduction of the constitution, were forgotten, and there appeared a general disposition to allow His Excellency sufficient means to t... | Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington | |
1864 - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 18 | The Session of 1864 was opened by His Excellency on 24th December. Public rumours had for some considerable period been loud in declaring that irreconcilable differences had arisen between the Governor and his Ministers; and, when the correspondence was laid before the Legislature, it was a subject of universal regret that it had been characteis... | Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington | |
Employment of Females and Children - The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 40 | Though I have specially addressed this little pamphlet to the fathers and mothers of families, as to those primarily concerned in the well-being of the rising generation, I would ask the kind indulgence of the public generally, and particularly of those given to the consideration of social and economic questions, to what I shall bring before the... | Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington |


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RICHARDSON, Sir John Larkin Cheese | In 1966 the first encyclopedia of New Zealand was published in three thick volumes. An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand was a critical and publishing success at the time, and has been used as a basic reference work about the country since then. We are proud to make it available online. | McLintock, Alexander Hare Bernard John Foster, M.A., Research Officer, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington. New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga |
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John Larkins Cheese Richardson | RICHARDSON, SIR JOHN LARKINS CHEESE (1810-78) was born in the Bengal Presidency, India. He was sent home for his education, and since he was destined for the Indian army he went to Addiscombe College. Early in 1829 he returned to India as an artillery cadet, passed for the Bengal Horse Artillery, and entered the service of the East India Company in 1830. For 22 years Richardson served with distinction. In the Afghan campaign he was with Pollock's army which forced the Khyber pass and reoccupied Kabul, and he distinguished himself in the attack on the forts. Three years later, when the Sikhs crossed the Sutlej, he was serving under Lord Gough and Sir Harry Smith. At Ferozeshah he carried a wounded soldier out of action under heavy fire, and was severely wounded himself. For these campaigns he received the medal, with several clasps. (2nd lieutenant 1828; lieutenant 1837; captain 1846). Appointed to the general staff, he was for some years in charge of the powder magazine at Dumdum. He was secretary and treasurer to the Kabul relief fund, and became a personal friend of Havelock and Lawrence. In 1850 Richardson visited Cape Colony on furlough, and in 1851 he retired from the service. Next year he came to New Zealand in the Slains Castle, made long journeys in the south of Otago, and from Wellington made an adventurous trip overland to New Plymouth. These experiences are described in a scholarly volume, A Summer's Excursion (1854). About the same time he published a volume of blank verse, The First Christian Martyr in New Zealand. Having decided to settle at Puerua, in south Otago, Richardson returned to England to settle his affairs, and came out in the Strathmore (1856). He purchased Suisted's interest in the Otepopo run, north Otago, the other half of which was owned by Edward McGlashan. His disposition was to live the quiet life of a country gentleman, but after avoiding politics for three years he consented to be nominated for the Provincial Council, and was elected for Clutha in 1859. He was forthwith chosen as speaker, a position that threw upon him 18 months later the unpleasant duty of having to impeach the Superintendent (Macandrew) and to assume his office. The address which Richardson made at the time, full of reluctance and a sense of the pressing duty falling upon him, yet warm with indignation at the stigma resting upon the people of the province, is of a piece with the character of the man. Years later, when the people of Otago had again elected Macandrew Superintendent the rigid integrity of Richardson forbade him even to put to the Council the motion for the preferment of Macandrew to a public post, and stiffened the Stafford ministry against delegating to him the powers usually conferred for the administration of goldfields. In May 1861 Richardson was formally elected Superintendent in Macandrew's place. Almost at once there was a great influx into the province from Australia and California of men of robust and liberal character. They wanted a more managing hand at the helm, and their votes elected John Hyde Harris Superintendent (17 Apr 1863). Richardson was returned to the Council for his old seat (Clutha), and was again speaker (1863-67). His constituents made him a presentation of £230 to recoup him for his expenses, and he devoted the sum to founding scholarships. Meanwhile he had made a mark in the wider field of colonial politics. Nominated for Dunedin City early in 1862, he withdrew owing to an informality; but a few months later defeated James Paterson. He resigned the seat at the end of the year, and a few months later was returned for Dunedin and Suburbs North, which he represented 1863-66. He lost his Dunedin seat owing to the return to popularity of Macandrew, and the fight between the provincialists and the centralists; but a vacancy was found for him in New Plymouth, for which he sat until his elevation to the Legislative Council in 1867. Richardson was a member of the Weld and Stafford ministries-in the former as Postmaster-general and Commissioner of Customs (1864-65), and in the latter as a member of the executive without portfolio (1866-68). In 1868 he was appointed as speaker of the Legislative Council, a post in the gift of the Government, which he filled with dignity for the remainder of his life. High honours in colonial politics did not wean him from those of the province. Clutha again returned him to the Provincial Council (1873-74). In declining the speakership, he indignantly repudiated the suggestion that it was derogatory for one holding his position in the General Assembly to be speaker of a Provincial Council. 'No possible dignity can be conferred upon me,' he said, 'which would induce me to forego for a moment my rights as a citizen of New Zealand.' Richardson was knighted in 1875 in recognition of his services as Speaker and as New Zealand commissioner in the long and intricate investigation of accounts between Great Britain and New Zealand in respect of the services of Imperial troops in the Maori wars. Gisborne says of him: 'He was an able, earnest, and conscientious man, guileless, and of whom it may with truth be stated that he was without fear and without reproach. He had a lovable simplicity of thought and character and a heart as courageous as that of a lion. Singularly unselfish, he only thought of his duty, and all his aspirations were pure and patriotic.' He was largely responsible for the passing through the Legislative Council of Bradshaw's factory act, and inspired Bradshaw and others in many social reforms. His pamphlet on the employment of women and girls in factories was published by Bradshaw in 1881. Richardson was a stalwart in the cause of education. He had much to do with the foundation of the Girls' High School in Dunedin, and of the Universities of Otago and of New Zealand. His pamphlet, Thoughts on Female Education (1870) embodied his views on the movement that was then at his heart. He succeeded Burns as chancellor of the University of Otago in 1871, and resigned in 1876. Richardson died on 6 Dec 1878. Otago P.C. Proc.; N.Z.P.D., pass. App. H.R., 1877, B5, 5A; Richardson, op. cit.; Pearson; Gisborne; Reeves; Saunders; Beaglehole; Rusden; Hocken; Otago Witness, 28 Nov 1862, 22, 29 Oct 1870; Bruce Herald, 10 Dec 1878; Otago Daily Times, 7, 19 Dec 1878; 21 Feb 1930 (P). Portrait: Parliament House; Girls High School, Dunedin. | Volume 2, page 120 |
RICHARDSON, SIR JOHN LARKINS CHEESE (1810-78) was born in the Bengal Presidency, India. He was sent home for his education, and since he was destined for the Indian army he went to Addiscombe College. Early in 1829 he returned to India as an artillery cadet, passed for the Bengal Horse Artillery, and entered the service of the East India Company in 1830. For 22 years Richardson served with distinction. In the Afghan campaign he was with Pollock's army which forced the Khyber pass and reoccupied Kabul, and he distinguished himself in the attack on the forts. Three years later, when the Sikhs crossed the Sutlej, he was serving under Lord Gough and Sir Harry Smith. At Ferozeshah he carried a wounded soldier out of action under heavy fire, and was severely wounded himself. For these campaigns he received the medal, with several clasps. (2nd lieutenant 1828; lieutenant 1837; captain 1846). Appointed to the general staff, he was for some years in charge of the powder magazine at Dumdum. He was secretary and treasurer to the Kabul relief fund, and became a personal friend of Havelock and Lawrence. In 1850 Richardson visited Cape Colony on furlough, and in 1851 he retired from the service. Next year he came to New Zealand in the Slains Castle, made long journeys in the south of Otago, and from Wellington made an adventurous trip overland to New Plymouth. These experiences are described in a scholarly volume, A Summer's Excursion (1854). About the same time he published a volume of blank verse, The First Christian Martyr in New Zealand. Having decided to settle at Puerua, in south Otago, Richardson returned to England to settle his affairs, and came out in the Strathmore (1856). He purchased Suisted's interest in the Otepopo run, north Otago, the other half of which was owned by Edward McGlashan. His disposition was to live the quiet life of a country gentleman, but after avoiding politics for three years he consented to be nominated for the Provincial Council, and was elected for Clutha in 1859. He was forthwith chosen as speaker, a position that threw upon him 18 months later the unpleasant duty of having to impeach the Superintendent (Macandrew) and to assume his office. The address which Richardson made at the time, full of reluctance and a sense of the pressing duty falling upon him, yet warm with indignation at the stigma resting upon the people of the province, is of a piece with the character of the man. Years later, when the people of Otago had again elected Macandrew Superintendent the rigid integrity of Richardson forbade him even to put to the Council the motion for the preferment of Macandrew to a public post, and stiffened the Stafford ministry against delegating to him the powers usually conferred for the administration of goldfields.
In May 1861 Richardson was formally elected Superintendent in Macandrew's place. Almost at once there was a great influx into the province from Australia and California of men of robust and liberal character. They wanted a more managing hand at the helm, and their votes elected John Hyde Harris Superintendent (17 Apr 1863). Richardson was returned to the Council for his old seat (Clutha), and was again speaker (1863-67). His constituents made him a presentation of £230 to recoup him for his expenses, and he devoted the sum to founding scholarships.
Meanwhile he had made a mark in the wider field of colonial politics. Nominated for Dunedin City early in 1862, he withdrew owing to an informality; but a few months later defeated James Paterson. He resigned the seat at the end of the year, and a few months later was returned for Dunedin and Suburbs North, which he represented 1863-66. He lost his Dunedin seat owing to the return to popularity of Macandrew, and the fight between the provincialists and the centralists; but a vacancy was found for him in New Plymouth, for which he sat until his elevation to the Legislative Council in 1867. Richardson was a member of the Weld and Stafford ministries-in the former as Postmaster-general and Commissioner of Customs (1864-65), and in the latter as a member of the executive without portfolio (1866-68). In 1868 he was appointed as speaker of the Legislative Council, a post in the gift of the Government, which he filled with dignity for the remainder of his life. High honours in colonial politics did not wean him from those of the province. Clutha again returned him to the Provincial Council (1873-74). In declining the speakership, he indignantly repudiated the suggestion that it was derogatory for one holding his position in the General Assembly to be speaker of a Provincial Council. 'No possible dignity can be conferred upon me,' he said, 'which would induce me to forego for a moment my rights as a citizen of New Zealand.' Richardson was knighted in 1875 in recognition of his services as Speaker and as New Zealand commissioner in the long and intricate investigation of accounts between Great Britain and New Zealand in respect of the services of Imperial troops in the Maori wars.
Gisborne says of him: 'He was an able, earnest, and conscientious man, guileless, and of whom it may with truth be stated that he was without fear and without reproach. He had a lovable simplicity of thought and character and a heart as courageous as that of a lion. Singularly unselfish, he only thought of his duty, and all his aspirations were pure and patriotic.' He was largely responsible for the passing through the Legislative Council of Bradshaw's factory act, and inspired Bradshaw and others in many social reforms. His pamphlet on the employment of women and girls in factories was published by Bradshaw in 1881. Richardson was a stalwart in the cause of education. He had much to do with the foundation of the Girls' High School in Dunedin, and of the Universities of Otago and of New Zealand. His pamphlet, Thoughts on Female Education (1870) embodied his views on the movement that was then at his heart. He succeeded Burns as chancellor of the University of Otago in 1871, and resigned in 1876. Richardson died on 6 Dec 1878.
Otago P.C. Proc.; N.Z.P.D., pass. App. H.R., 1877, B5, 5A; Richardson, op. cit.; Pearson; Gisborne; Reeves; Saunders; Beaglehole; Rusden; Hocken; Otago Witness, 28 Nov 1862, 22, 29 Oct 1870; Bruce Herald, 10 Dec 1878; Otago Daily Times, 7, 19 Dec 1878; 21 Feb 1930 (P).
Portrait: Parliament House; Girls High School, Dunedin.
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RICHARDSON | J L C | Otago | 26 Jun 1862 | |
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RICHARDSON | John | Otago | 11 Jan 1862 | |
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RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 8 Jun 1861 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 4 Jan 1862 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 8 Jan 1862 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 23 Jan 1862 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 5 Feb 1862 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 19 Feb 1862 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 5 Mar 1862 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 5 Jun 1862 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 20 Jun 1862 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 26 Jun 1862 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 26 Jun 1862 | |
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RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Dunedin | Otago | 28 Jun 1862 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 21 Jul 1862 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 21 Jul 1862 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 21 Jul 1862 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 10 Sep 1862 | |
RICHARDSON | J L C | |||
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 15 Sep 1862 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 15 Sep 1862 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 23 Sep 1862 | |
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RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 8 Nov 1862 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 18 Nov 1862 | |
RICHARDSON | J L C | |||
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Castle st | Dunedin | 1863 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Dunedin | Otago | 18 Feb 1863 |
RICHARDSON | J L C | |||
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 23 Feb 1863 | |
RICHARDSON | J L C | |||
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Clutha District | Otago | 31 Jul 1863 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 12 Aug 1863 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Dunedin | Otago | 16 Sep 1863 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Clutha | Otago | 1864 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | Otago | 19 Feb 1864 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Clutha | before 25 Apr 1864 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Clutha | before 9 May 1864 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 24 Nov 1864 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Otago | 24 Nov 1864 | |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | South Clutha | Clutha Electorate | 1865-66 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Clutha | Otago | 1865 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | South Clutha | Clutha Electorate | 1866-67 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Clutha | Otago | 1866 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | South Clutha | Clutha District | 1867-68 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | Clutha | Otago | 1867 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | South Clutha | Clutha Electorate | 1868-69 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | South Clutha | Clutha Electorate | 1868-69 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | South Clutha | Clutha Electorate | 1868-69 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | South Clutha | Clutha District | 1869-70 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | South Clutha | Clutha Electorate | 1869-70 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | South Clutha | Clutha Electorate | 1870-71 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | South Clutha | Clutha Electorate | 1870-71 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | South Clutha | Clutha District Electorate | 1871-72 |
RICHARDSON | John Larkins Cheese | South Clutha | Clutha District Electorate | 1872-73 |
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Hocken Digital Collections
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