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RICHMOND, LEGH (1772-1827) , English divine, was born on the 29th of January 1772, at Liverpool. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge , and in 1798 was appointed tothe joint curacies of Brading and Yaverland in the Isle of Wight. He was powerfully influenced by William Wilberforce's Practical
interest
Hospital
rector of Turvey, Bedfordshire, where he remained till his death on the 8th of May 1827. The best known of his writings is The Dairyman's Daughter, of which as many as four millions in nine-teen languages were circulated before 1849. A collected edition of his stories of village
series of Reformation biographies called Fathers of the English Church (180712).See Memoirs by T. S. Grimshawe (1828) ; Domestic Portraiture
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