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Richards, Sir Viv (Antiguan cricket player)
West Indian cricketer, arguably the finest batsman of his generation....
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Richards, Sir William Buell (Canadian jurist)
politician and jurist who was the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1875–79)....
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Richards, Theodore William (American chemist)
American chemist whose accurate determination of the atomic weights of approximately 25 elements indicated the existence of isotopes and earned him the 1914 Nobel Prize for Chemistry....
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Richards, William (American missionary)
American missionary who helped to promote a liberal constitutional monarchy in the Hawaiian Islands....
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Richardson (Texas, United States)
city, northern suburb of Dallas, Dallas and Collin counties, northern Texas, U.S. The original founders settled Breckenridge township (c. 1853) south of the present city limits in what is now Restland. In 1872 Ryley and Jack Wheeler gave land for a town site and right-of-way to the Houston and Texas Central Railway, and the town was laid out and named f...
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Richardson, Anna M. (American philanthropist)
American philanthropist, perhaps best remembered for establishing the Commonwealth Fund, which continues as a major foundation focusing largely on health services and medical education and research....
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Richardson, Benjamin (British glassmaker)
founder of one of the great English glass-manufacturing houses, who was instrumental in the introduction of modern glass-working methods to England. Richardson’s Stourbridge factory was the first in the country to have a threading machine for making filigree glass and the first to make mass-produced pressed glass...
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Richardson, Bill (American politician)
American politician, who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1983–97), as a member of Pres. Bill Clinton’s cabinet (1997–2001), and as governor of New Mexico (2003– ) and who sought the Democratic nomination for president in 2008....
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Richardson, Cecil Antonio (British director and producer)
English theatrical and motion-picture director whose experimental productions stimulated a renewal of creative vitality on the British stage during the 1950s....
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Richardson, Charles (British lexicographer)
...Another collector, James Jermyn, showed by his publications between 1815 and 1848 that he had the largest body of quotations assembled before that of The Oxford English Dictionary. Charles Richardson was also an industrious collector, presenting his dictionary, from 1818 on, distributed alphabetically throughout the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana (vol. 14 to 25) and......
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Richardson, Clifford (American engineer)
In 1887 de Smedt was followed as inspector of asphalts and cements by Clifford Richardson, who set about the task of codifying the specifications for asphalt mixes. Richardson basically developed two forms of asphalt: asphaltic concrete, which was strong and stiff and thus provided structural strength; and hot-rolled asphalt, which contained more bitumen and thus produced a far smoother and......
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Richardson, Dorothy (American athlete)
American softball player who was a member of Olympic gold-medal-winning teams in 1996 and 2000....
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Richardson, Dorothy M. (British novelist)
English novelist, an often neglected pioneer in stream-of-consciousness fiction....
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Richardson, Dorothy Miller (British novelist)
English novelist, an often neglected pioneer in stream-of-consciousness fiction....
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Richardson, Dot (American athlete)
American softball player who was a member of Olympic gold-medal-winning teams in 1996 and 2000....
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Richardson, Elaine Potter (Caribbean American author)
Caribbean American writer whose essays, stories, and novels are evocative portrayals of family relationships and her native Antigua....
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Richardson, Elliot Lee (attorney general of United States)
American government official who on Oct. 20, 1973, resigned from his newly appointed post (April 30, 1973) as U.S. attorney general during what later became known as the “Saturday Night Massacre” rather than fire special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, whom Pres. Richard Nixon wanted Richardson to dismiss. Richardson, who had selected Cox as an impartial independent investigator,...
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Richardson, Eveline Mabel (American economist and educator)
British-born American economist and educator, best remembered for her role in creating U.S. social security policy and for her work to further public understanding of it....
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Richardson, Henry Handel (Australian novelist)
Australian novelist whose trilogy The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, combining description of an Australian immigrant’s life and work in the goldfields with a powerful character study, is considered the crowning achievement of modern Australian fiction to that time....
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Richardson, Henry Hobson (American architect)
American architect, the initiator of the Romanesque revival in the United States and a pioneer figure in the development of an indigenous, modern American style of architecture....
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Richardson, Ian (British actor)
British actor who was an accomplished actor and a founding member (1960–75) of the Royal Shakespeare Company, but he gained international recognition for his BAFTA-winning performance as the charismatic Machiavellian politician Francis Urquhart in the BBC television trilogy House of Cards (1990), To Play the King (1993), and The Final Cut (1995). Richardson portrayed t...
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Richardson, Jerome (American musician)
American musician (b. Nov. 15, 1920, Sealy, Texas—d. June 23, 2000, Englewood, N.J.), was a versatile saxophonist and flutist who played on more than 4,000 jazz, rhythm-and-blues, and rock-and-roll recordings. Richardson began his professional career at the age of 14, playing with the Lionel Hampton band. He later studied music at San Francisco State College. During World War II he served i...
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Richardson, John (Canadian writer)
Canadian writer of historical and autobiographical romantic novels....
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Richardson, Jonathan (English critic)
At the beginning of the 18th century, the Englishman Jonathan Richardson became the first person to develop a system of art criticism. In An Essay on the Whole Art of Criticism as It Relates to Painting and An Argument in Behalf of the Science of a Connoisseur (both 1719), he develops a practical system of critical evaluation that reminds one of Jeremy Bentham’s......
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Richardson, Lewis Fry (British physicist)
British physicist and psychologist who was the first to apply mathematical techniques to predict the weather accurately....
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Richardson Mountains (mountains, Canada)
range of the Canadian Rocky Mountains that parallels the northernmost part of the boundary of the Yukon and Northwest Territories, northwestern Canada. Trending northwest-southeast, the Richardson Mountains are the northern extremity of the Rockies. T...
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Richardson, Natasha (British actress)
British-born actress who arose within a renowned British acting dynasty to make her own mark in motion pictures and, especially, onstage in London’s West End and on Broadway. She was the elder daughter of director Tony Richardson and actress Vanessa Redgrave—herself the daughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, the sister of actors Corin Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave, ...
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Richardson number (meteorology)
parameter that can be used to predict the occurrence of fluid turbulence and, hence, the destruction of density currents in water or air. It was defined by the British meteorologist Lewis Fry Richardson, a pioneer in mathematical weather forecasting...
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Richardson, Robert (American cinematographer)
parameter that can be used to predict the occurrence of fluid turbulence and, hence, the destruction of density currents in water or air. It was defined by the British meteorologist Lewis Fry Richardson, a pioneer in mathematical weather forecasting...
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Richardson, Robert C. (American physicist)
American physicist who was the corecipient, along with Douglas Osheroff and David Lee, of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery of superfluidity in the isotope helium-3 (3He)....
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Richardson, Robert Coleman (American physicist)
American physicist who was the corecipient, along with Douglas Osheroff and David Lee, of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery of superfluidity in the isotope helium-3 (3He)....
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Richardson, Samuel (English novelist)
English novelist who expanded the dramatic possibilities of the novel by his invention and use of the letter form (“epistolary novel”). His major novels were Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1747–48)....
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Richardson, Sir John (Scottish surgeon and explorer)
Scottish naval surgeon and naturalist who made accurate surveys of more of the Canadian Arctic coast than any other explorer....
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Richardson, Sir Owen Willans (British physicist)
English physicist and recipient of the 1928 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on electron emission by hot metals, the basic principle used in vacuum tubes....
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Richardson, Sir Ralph (British actor)
British stage and motion-picture actor who, with Sir John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier, was one of the greatest British actors of his generation....
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Richardson, Sir Ralph David (British actor)
British stage and motion-picture actor who, with Sir John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier, was one of the greatest British actors of his generation....
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Richardson, Tony (British director and producer)
English theatrical and motion-picture director whose experimental productions stimulated a renewal of creative vitality on the British stage during the 1950s....
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Richardson, William (British pioneer settler)
Almost half a century later, a village sprang up on the shore of Yerba Buena Cove, 2 miles (3 km) east of the mission. The pioneer settler was an Englishman, Captain William Anthony Richardson, who in 1835 cleared a plot of land and erected San Francisco’s first dwelling—a tent made of four pieces of redwood and a ship’s foresail. In the same year, the ......
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Richardson, William Anthony (British pioneer settler)
Almost half a century later, a village sprang up on the shore of Yerba Buena Cove, 2 miles (3 km) east of the mission. The pioneer settler was an Englishman, Captain William Anthony Richardson, who in 1835 cleared a plot of land and erected San Francisco’s first dwelling—a tent made of four pieces of redwood and a ship’s foresail. In the same year, the ......
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Richardson, William Blaine III (American politician)
American politician, who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1983–97), as a member of Pres. Bill Clinton’s cabinet (1997–2001), and as governor of New Mexico (2003– ) and who sought the Democratic nomination for president in 2008....
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Richardson, William Lyle (American actor)
American actor (b. May 7, 1922, Spokane, Wash.—d. Feb. 25, 2006, Los Angeles, Calif.), had a nearly 70-year career during which he showcased his versatility in hundreds of character roles. He was best known for his starring role in the television series Mike Hammer (1958), for his portrayal of newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak in two made-for-TV movies—The Night Stalker (...
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Richardson, Willis (American playwright)
Although the most memorable literary achievement of the Harlem Renaissance was in narrative prose and poetry, the movement also inspired dramatists such as Willis Richardson, whose The Chip Woman’s Fortune (produced 1923) was the first nonmusical play by an African American to be produced on Broadway. African American editors such as Charles S. Johnson, whose monthl...
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Richardson-Dushman equation (physics)
...potential. Because of this, when the rate at which electrons escape from the metal is calculated, the detailed structure of the metal has little influence on the final result. A formula known as Richardson’s law (first proposed by the English physicist Owen W. Richardson) is roughly valid for all metals. It is usually expressed in te...
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Richardson’s ground squirrel (rodent)
Among the common grassland mammals are Richardson’s ground squirrel and the pocket gopher, both of which damage young grain crops. They continue to proliferate despite predation by badgers, hawks, and owls and farmers’ attempts at control. The first settlers to cross the Canadian prairies encountered enormous herds of bison (often called buffalo), but by the end of the 19th century.....
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Richardson’s law (physics)
...potential. Because of this, when the rate at which electrons escape from the metal is calculated, the detailed structure of the metal has little influence on the final result. A formula known as Richardson’s law (first proposed by the English physicist Owen W. Richardson) is roughly valid for all metals. It is usually expressed in te...
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Richborough (historical site, England, United Kingdom)
site of a Roman port (Rutupiae) in Dover district, administrative and historic county of Kent, England, located just north of Sandwich. After the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 ce, Rutupiae was established to guard the Wantsum Channel, which then separated the ...
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Richbourg, John (American disc jockey)
Three white disc jockeys—John Richbourg, Gene Nobles, and Bill (“Hoss”) Allen—brought fame to themselves and WLAC by playing rhythm and blues, at least partly in response to the requests of returning World War II veterans who had been exposed to the new music in other parts of the country. Nobles, who joined WLAC in 1943, was the host of The......
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Riche, Barnabe (English author and soldier)
English author and soldier whose Farewell to Militarie Profession (1581) was the source for Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night....
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Richecourt, Emmanuel, comte de (Habsburg official)
Emmanuel, comte de Richecourt, who served in Tuscany for 20 years as the chief representative of the regent, Francis I, followed the main lines of Habsburg policy in Milan. Local aristocratic divisions, the privileged position of Florence (the Tuscan capital), and the corruption and private enrichment of public officials came under scrutiny. Reforms aimed to restore revenues, reorganize......
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Richelet, César-Pierre (French author)
...of the French language. This effort bore fruit in the Académie’s own Dictionnaire of 1694, though by then rival works had appeared in the dictionaries of César-Pierre Richelet (1680) and Antoine Furetière (1690). A similar desire for systematic analysis inspired Claude Favre, sieur de Vaugelas, also an Academician, whose ......
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Richelieu, Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, duc de (prime minister of France)
French nobleman, soldier, and statesman who, as premier of France (1815–18 and 1820–21), obtained the withdrawal of the Allied occupation army from France. Earlier, he had served Russia as governor of Odessa and was notable for his progressive administration there....
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Richelieu, Armand-Jean du Plessis, cardinal et duc de (French cardinal and statesman)
chief minister to King Louis XIII of France from 1624 to 1642. His major goals were the establishment of royal absolutism in France and the end of Spanish-Habsburg hegemony in Europe....
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Richelieu, Emmanuel-Armand de Vignerot du Plessis de (French statesman)
French statesman, whose career illustrates the difficulties of the central government of the ancien régime in dealing with the provincial Parlements and estates, the extent to which powerful ministers were at the mercy of court intrigue, and how French diplomacy suffered under ...
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Richelieu, Louis-François-Armand du Plessis, duc de (French marshal)
marshal of France, and grand-nephew of Cardinal de Richelieu....
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Richelieu River (river, Canada)
river in Montérégie region, southern Quebec province, Canada, rising from Lake Champlain, just north of the Canada-U.S. border, and flowing northward for 75 miles (120 km) to join the St. Lawrence River at Sorel. Explored in 1609 by Samuel de Champlain...
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Richemont, Arthur, Comte de (French military officer)
constable of France (from 1425) who fought for Charles VII under the banner of Joan of Arc and later fought further battles against the English (1436–53) in the final years of the Hundred Years’ War. In childhood (1399) he had been given the English title of Earl of Richmond...
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Richemont, Arthur, Connétable de (French military officer)
constable of France (from 1425) who fought for Charles VII under the banner of Joan of Arc and later fought further battles against the English (1436–53) in the final years of the Hundred Years’ War. In childhood (1399) he had been given the English title of Earl of Richmond...
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Richemont, Arthur, Constable de (French military officer)
constable of France (from 1425) who fought for Charles VII under the banner of Joan of Arc and later fought further battles against the English (1436–53) in the final years of the Hundred Years’ War. In childhood (1399) he had been given the English title of Earl of Richmond...
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Richen zampo (Buddhist monk)
Tibetan Buddhist monk, called the “Great Translator,” known primarily for his extensive translations of Indian Buddhist texts into Tibetan, thus furthering the subsequent development of Buddhism in Tibet. First sent to India in the late 10th century under Tibetan royal patronage, Rin-chen-bzang-po eventually succeeded in bringing back to Tibet a number of Indian ...
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Richepin, Jean (French author)
French poet, dramatist, and novelist who examined the lower levels of society in sharp, bold language. As Émile Zola revolutionized the novel with his naturalism, Richepin did the same for French poetry during that period....
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Richer, Jean (French astronomer)
French astronomer whose observations of the planet Mars from Cayenne, French Guiana, in 1671–73 contributed to both astronomy and geodesy. The French government sent Richer to Cayenne to investigate atmospheric refraction at a site near the ...
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Riches (work by Vouet)
...him his first painter. Thereafter, Vouet won almost all the important painting commissions and dominated the city artistically for 15 years. He exercised an enormous influence with such works as “Riches” (c. 1630), which was probably part of the decorative program of the château of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Engravings and surviving panels show that he had studied......
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Richet, Charles (French physiologist)
French physiologist who won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of and coining of the term anaphylaxis, the life-threatening allergic reaction he observed in a sensitized animal upon second exposure to an antigen. This research provided the first evidence that an immune response could cause damage as well...
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Richet, Charles Robert (French physiologist)
French physiologist who won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of and coining of the term anaphylaxis, the life-threatening allergic reaction he observed in a sensitized animal upon second exposure to an antigen. This research provided the first evidence that an immune response could cause damage as well...
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Richey, Charles Robert (United States jurist)
American federal judge whose influential rulings during his 25 years on the bench advanced women’s rights and checked presidential powers; he presided over several Watergate cases and strongly supported the people’s right to know the actions of government (b. Oct. 16, 1923--d. March 19, 1997)....
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Richie, Lionel (American musician, composer, and songwriter)
...Direction: Stephen Grimes for Out of AfricaOriginal Score: John Barry for Out of AfricaOriginal Song: “Say You, Say Me” from White Nights; music and lyrics by Lionel RichieHonorary Award: Paul Newman, Alex North, John H. Whitney, Sr....
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Richier, Germaine (French sculptor)
French sculptor of provocative, biomorphic figures....
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Richini, Francesco Maria (Italian architect)
The most notable of the city’s many palaces is the Palazzo di Brera, construction of which dates from 1651. Its architect, Francesco Maria Ricchino, infused the whole Milanese Baroque with his severe style. The building’s Pinacoteca di Brera, founded in 1809 by Napoleon, is one of the largest art galleries in Italy and contains a fine collection of north Italian painting. The Palazzo...
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Richland (North Dakota, United States)
city, seat (1873) of Richland county, southeastern North Dakota, U.S. It lies on the Minnesota border across from Breckenridge, Minnesota, at the point where the Bois de Sioux and Otter Tail rivers merge to become the Red River of the North. Settled in 1864 by Morgan T. Rich and initially named Richland, it was the second permanent settlemen...
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Richland (county, South Carolina, United States)
county, central South Carolina, U.S. It is bordered to the east by the Wateree River and to the west by the Broad River, which, after its confluence with the Saluda, becomes the Congaree River. The northern portion of the county lies in Fall Line hills, whereas the southern part consis...
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Richland (Washington, United States)
city, Benton county, south-central Washington, U.S., at the juncture of the Yakima and Columbia rivers. With Kennewick and Pasco, it forms a tri-city area. Named in 1905 for Nelson Rich, a local landowner and state legislator, it remained a farming village (population c. 250) until 1942, when, with the development of the ...
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Richland (California, United States)
city, Orange county, southern California, U.S. Adjacent to Anaheim (west) and Santa Ana (south), it lies along the Santa Ana River. Part of Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, the city was founded as Richland in 1869 by Alfred Chapman and Andrew Glassell, who received the land as payment for legal fees. The town was laid out in 1871 and renamed in...
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Richland Center (Wisconsin, United States)
city, Orange county, southern California, U.S. Adjacent to Anaheim (west) and Santa Ana (south), it lies along the Santa Ana River. Part of Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, the city was founded as Richland in 1869 by Alfred Chapman and Andrew Glassell, who received the land as payment for legal fees. The town was laid out in 1871 and renamed in...
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Richler, Mordecai (Canadian novelist)
prominent Canadian novelist whose incisive and penetrating works explore fundamental human dilemmas and values....
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Richmond (Tasmania, Australia)
town, southeastern Tasmania, Australia, situated on Coal River at the head of Pitt Water lagoon. In 1815 Tasmania’s first flour mill was built in the area, and by 1823 a bridge (Australia’s oldest existing bridge) was built across the river to provide access from Hobart (16 miles [26 km] southwest) and to the east coast and ...
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Richmond (Virginia, United States)
city, capital of Virginia, U.S., seat (1752) of Henrico county, situated in the east-central part of the state at the head of navigation of the James River. Politically independent of the county, it is the centre of a metropolitan area including the rest of Henrico county and Chesterfiel...
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Richmond (county, New York, United States)
county (area 58 sq mi [48 sq km]), southeastern New York, U.S., coextensive with Staten Island borough, which comprises Staten Island and part or all of several smaller islands in New York Harbor. The borough is linked to Brooklyn by the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (see ). The first permanent settlement was made under Dutch authority in 1661 at Oude Dorp ...
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Richmond (Kentucky, United States)
city, seat (1798) of Madison county, east-central Kentucky, U.S., in the outer Bluegrass region, near the Cumberland foothills. The city, on the old Wilderness Road, 25 miles (39 km) southeast of Lexington, was settled in 1785 by Colonel John Miller, who served at Yorktown during the American Revolution...
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Richmond (California, United States)
port city, Contra Costa county, western California, U.S. It lies on the northeastern shore of San Francisco Bay and is connected to Marin county by the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge (1956), 16 miles (26 km) northeast of San Francisco. The site of ancient Ohlone Indian shell mounds...
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Richmond (New South Wales, Australia)
town, part of the Hawkesbury local government area, east-central New South Wales, Australia, on the Hawkesbury River. It is situated on a hill, was named in 1789 after the Duke of Richmond by Governor ...
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Richmond (North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom)
town (“parish”), Richmondshire district, administrative county of North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northern England, situated on the left bank of the River Swale where its dale (upland valley) opens into the plain. Richmond grew up in the shelter of a Norman c...
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Richmond (Indiana, United States)
city, seat (1873) of Wayne county, east-central Indiana, U.S. It is located on the East Fork of Whitewater River, 67 miles (108 km) east of Indianapolis at the Ohio border. Settled in 1806 by migrating North Carolina Quakers, it was first called Smithville and in 1818 amalgamated with neighbouring Coxborou...
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Richmond and Lennox, Charles Stuart, duke of (English noble)
...the possibility of obtaining a divorce in order to make her his wife. This was at a time when he feared to lose her as his mistress, since her hand was sought in marriage by Charles Stuart, duke of Richmond and Lennox....
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Richmond and Lennox, Frances Teresa Stuart, duchess of (English mistress)
a favourite mistress of Charles II of Great Britain....
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Richmond, Arthur, Earl of (French military officer)
constable of France (from 1425) who fought for Charles VII under the banner of Joan of Arc and later fought further battles against the English (1436–53) in the final years of the Hundred Years’ War. In childhood (1399) he had been given the English title of Earl of Richmond...
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Richmond, Bill (American boxer)
...the ring began to slowly shift to American fighters. The change started, perhaps, with American fighters competing in Britain during the Regency era. Two such early fighters were former slaves—Bill Richmond and his protégé Tom Molineaux. Both Richmond and Molineaux fought against the top English pugilists of the day; indeed, Molineaux fought Tom Cribb twice for the......
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Richmond, Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of (English noble [1672-1723])
son of Charles II of England by his mistress Louise de Kéroualle, duchess of Portsmouth. He was aide-de-camp to William III from 1693 to 1702 and lord of the bedchamber to George I from 1714 to 1723....
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Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3rd duke of (British politician [1735-1806])
one of the most progressive British politicians of the 18th century, being chiefly known for his advanced views on parliamentary reform....
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Richmond College (university, Richmond, Virginia, United States)
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Richmond, Virginia, U.S. It is affiliated with the Baptist General Association of Virginia. The university includes the School of Arts and Sciences, the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, the Jepson School of Leadership Studies...
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Richmond, Earl of (duke of Brittany [1340-99])
duke of Brittany from 1365, whose support for English interests during the Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453) nearly cost him the forfeit of his duchy to the French crown. The instability of his reign is attributable not only to his alliances with England but also to his imposition of harsh taxes on his subjects....
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Richmond, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of (English noble)
...and connections, to be involved (though usually peripherally) in the jockeying for place that accompanied Henry VIII’s policies. From 1530 until 1532 he lived at Windsor with his father’s ward, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, who was the son of Henry VIII and his mistress Elizabeth Blount. In 1532, after talk of marriage with the princess Mary (daughter of Henry VIII and ......
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Richmond, Henry Tudor, earl of (fictional character)
...acceptance of the crown. The nefarious partnership between Richard and Buckingham ends when Buckingham balks at killing the young princes and then flees to escape the same fate. An army led by Henry Tudor, earl of Richmond, challenges Richard’s claim to the throne. On the night before the Battle of Bosworth Field, Richard is haunted b...
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Richmond, Henry Tudor, earl of (king of England)
king of England (1485–1509), who succeeded in ending the Wars of the Roses between the houses of Lancaster and York and founded the Tudor dynasty....
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Richmond, Henry Wilmot, 1st earl of (English nobleman)
leading Royalist during the English Civil Wars, a principal adviser to the Prince of Wales, later Charles II....
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Richmond, John of Gaunt, earl of (English prince)
English prince, fourth but third surviving son of the English king Edward III and Philippa of Hainaut; he exercised a moderating influence in the political and constitutional struggles of the reign of his nephew Richard II. He was the immediate ancestor of the three 15th-century Lancastrian monarchs, Henry...
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Richmond, Lake (lake, Australia)
river in southwestern Tasmania, Australia. The Gordon River rises from Lake Richmond in the King William Range of the central highlands and flows southeast around a great bend to the southwest and finally northwest to enter the Indian Ocean at ......
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Richmond Professional Institute (school, Richmond, Virginia, United States)
...The Richmond School of Social Work and Public Health was established in 1917, which in 1925 became the Richmond division of the College of William and Mary. In 1939 the division was known as the Richmond Professional Institute; it separated from William and Mary and came under state control in 1962. The Medical College of Virginia and the Richmond Professional Institute merged in 1968 to......
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Richmond, Ranulf de Blundeville, Earl of (English noble)
most celebrated of the early earls of Chester, with whom the family fortunes reached their peak....
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Richmond River (river, New South Wales, Australia)
principal river of the North Coast district, New South Wales, Australia, rising on Mt. Lindesay, in the McPherson Range, and flowing southeast through Casino and Coraki, at which point it is joined by the Wilson River. The river then turns northeastwa...
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Richmond School of Social Work and Public Health (school, Richmond, Virginia, United States)
...The Richmond School of Social Work and Public Health was established in 1917, which in 1925 became the Richmond division of the College of William and Mary. In 1939 the division was known as the Richmond Professional Institute; it separated from William and Mary and came under state control in 1962. The Medical College of Virginia and the Richmond Professional Institute merged in 1968 to......
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