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Jonathan Richardson (MP)

British politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ6274234 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jonathan Richardson (born 1804) was an Irish politician. He was a member of the Quaker Richardson family and a relative of James Nicholson Richardson MP and Jonathan Joseph Richardson MP.

He was elected as a Member of Parliament for Lisburn in 1857, and again in 1859 as a Conservative, resigning in 1863.

Richardson lived at Kirkcassock House, County Down, which was designed by Alfred Waterhouse, ca. 1865.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jonathan Richardson (MP)” as british politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1804, 1857, 1859, 1863—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1804. The account is most persuasive where Jonathan, Richardson and British can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as british politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6274234. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1804, 1857, 1859 and 1863.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Jonathan Richardson (MP)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.