Joseph Richardson[1] was a Liberal Party politician in England

England

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He was elected as Member of Parliament

Parliament

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 (MP) for South East Durham at the 1892 general election. He was defeated at the 1895 general election by the Liberal Union

Liberal Union

The Liberal Union was a Dutch liberal political party. A major party in its time, the LU was one of the historic predecessors of the Liberal State Party, and therefore of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy....

ist Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, who he had ousted in 1892. Havelock-Allan died in 1897, and Richardson won the resulting by-election in 1898, but lost his seat again at the 1900 general election.[2]
He died two years later, aged 72.
External links
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Joseph Richardson
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Henry Havelock-Allan Member of Parliament for South East Durham
1892–1895 Succeeded by
Sir Henry Havelock-Allan
Preceded by
Sir Henry Havelock-Allan Member of Parliament for South East Durham
1898–1900 Succeeded by
Frederick Lambton