Richard Meredyth Richards

Richard Meredyth Richards (18 January 1821 – 4 November 1873)[1][2] was a justice of the peace, and high sheriff for the county of Merionethshire.[3]

He married Louisa Janette Anne Edwards (died 1899), daughter of Edward Lloyd Edward whose family owned Cerrig Llwydion Hall in Denbighshire.[4] After his death she married the Rev Charles Tooth founder of St Mark's English Church, Florence in 1894[5] and commissioned the Arts and Crafts St Mark's Church, Brithdir in Tooth's memory.[6]

References
  1. William Llewelyn Davies (1959) RICHARDS family of Coed at the Dictionary of Welsh Biographies.
  2. Richard Meredyth Richards at geni.com (for the date)
  3. Burke, Bernard. (1871). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. II (5th ed.). London: Harrison. p. 1165.
  4. "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
  5. "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
  6. "Brithdir". Friends of Friendless Churches. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
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