Edwin Richards (politician)

Edwin Richards (9 March 1856 – 22 January 1927) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Mudgee to Evan Richards and Caroline Smith. He worked as a journalist, jointly running the Mudgee Independent with George Cohen until 1889. Declared bankrupt in 1890, he later became partner in a printing business. In 1898 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the National Federal Party member for Mudgee. A Progressive from 1901, he retired from politics in 1907. He subsequently ran the Western Express at Rylstone until 1922. Richards died in Sydney in 1927.^[1]