Jonathan Richardson (MP)

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

Arms

Coat of arms of Jonathan Richardson

Notes Granted 9 February 1881 by Sir John Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms. Crest A lion rampant Argent armed and langued Gules holding between the paws a laurel garland Proper. Escutcheon Argent on a fess engrailed per saltire Azure and Gules between in chief a bull's head couped of the third and in base a galley Proper four escallops two in fess and two in pale Or. Motto Virtute Acquiritur Honos[3]