Birth of Legh Richmond-his ancestry; education; and incidents of early years--Promise of talent-Completion of his education at school.
THE REV. LEGH RICHMOND was descended from an ancestry highly respectable on the side of both his parents, each of whom was related to some of the principal families in the counties of Lancaster and Chester. He was the son of Henry Richmond Esq., M. D., who practised as a physician, first at Liverpool, and afterward at Bath, where he resided for several years previously to his death, which occurred at Stockport, in Cheshire, in the year 1806; of which place his father, the Rev. Legh Richmond, had been
Dr. Henry Richmond, was the fifth in lineal male descent from Oliver Richmond Esq, of Ashton Keynes, in the county of Wilts, on which estate his ancestors had resided from the time of the Conquest.
The mother of Mr. Richmond, was the daughter of John Atherton Esq., of Walton Hall, near Liverpool, and by the maternal side first cousin to Dr. Henry Richmond.