RICHARDSON, James, clergyman, born in Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1817; died in Washington. D. C., 10 November, 1863. He was graduated at Harvard in 1887, and during his course aided in collecting Thomas Carlyle's " Miscellanies," which were published under Ralph Waldo Emerson's supervision (Boston, 1836). He afterward became a clerk of a county court, taught in New Hampshire, and was principal of a school near Providence, Rhode Island He was graduated at the Harvard divinity-school in 1845, ordained in Southington, Connecticut, and in 1847 became pastor of the Unitarian society in Haverhill, Massachusetts He took charge of the church in Rochester, New York, in 1856, but was compelled by the failure of his health to resign in 1859, and returned to his former home in Dedham. He continued to preach and lecture for many years, and constantly contributed to the press. During the civil war his services were given to the hospitals in Washington, D.C. He published several discourses, which include two farewell sermons at Southington, Connecticut (Boston, 1847).