About William Richardson
Lived 1844 – 1915 (aged 70–71). William Richardson was a British priest.
William Moore Richardson (1844 – 6 March 1915) was the Anglican Bishop of Zanzibar from 1895 until 1901.
He was born in 1844, educated at Rossall School and Merton College, Oxford and ordained in 1869. He held incumbencies at Wolvercote and Ponteland before his elevation to the episcopate. On his return from Africa he was Warden of the Community of St Thomas the Martyr in Oxford until his retirement in 1910. He died on 6 March 1915.
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William Richardson died on 6 March 1915.
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