Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Robert Richardson (1779-1847), Traveller and physician

Physician and traveller; accompanied the 2nd Earl of Belmore and party on a tour of Europe and the Middle East; claims to have been the first Christian traveller admitted to Solomon's mosque; published Travels, 1822.


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