Francis Northey Richardson

Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Northey Richardson, OBE, TD, JP (1894 – 29 January 1983) was an English Canadian soldier and brewing executive, who served as President of the Institute of Brewing.

Life Francis Northey Richardson was born in 1894, the son of F. Richardson, of Penticton in British Columbia. His family had emigrated to Canada, but Richardson was educated at Harrow (1908–12), before attending the University of British Columbia. He volunteered for the Canadian Army in 1914, and automatically became a Canadian citizen in the process; he fought with the country's forces in Europe during World War I as a gunner, before receiving a field commission; he was mentioned in dispatches twice and received the Territorial Decoration. He died on 29 January 1983.