He is believed to have been related to Major Richard Tonson, who obtained a grant of land in county Cork from Charles II, and whose descendants became Barons Riversdale.

Richard Tonson had a shop within Gray's Inn Gate ; Jacob Tonson's shop was for many years at the Judge's Head in Chancery Lane, near Fleet Street.

Joseph Addison's Poem to his Majesty was published by Tonson in 1695, and there was some correspondence respecting a proposed joint translation of Herodotus by Boyle, Richard Blackmore, Addison, and others.

Before the end of the century Tonson had moved from the Judge's Head to a shop in Gray's Inn Gate, probably the one previously occupied by his brother Richard.

There is a tradition that in earlier days Steele had had a daughter by a daughter of Tonson's ; if this is true, it must apparently have been a daughter of Richard Tonson, Jacob's brother.

In 1775 letters of administration of the goods of Jacob Tonson, left unadministered by Richard Tonson, were granted to William Baker, esq.

In some correspondence with the Duke of Newcastle in 1767, the duke spoke of his old friendship with Richard Tonson, " the heir of one I honoured and loved, and have passed many most agreeable hours with.

" Richard Tonson died on 9 October 1772.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

The youngest of three siblings, she had two older brothers: Richard ( who died before her birth ) and Paul, several years older.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

Elizabeth ’ s grandfather, owner of the family engineering works, Richard Garrett & Sons, had died in 1837, leaving the business to his eldest son, Elizabeth ’ s uncle.

Orwell spent time in Wallington and Southwold working on a Dickens essay and it was in July 1939 that Orwell's father, Richard Blair, died.

Henry added the Norman kingdom of Sicily to his domains, held English king Richard the Lionheart captive and aimed to establish a hereditary monarchy, when he died in 1197.

After he died in 1658, his son Richard Cromwell succeeded him in the office but he was forced to abdicate within a year.

William Hearst died in 1951, at age 88, and was succeeded by Richard E. Berlin as chief executive officer ; Berlin had served as president of the company since 1943.

John's elder brothers William, Henry and Geoffrey died young ; by the time Richard I became king in 1189, John was a potential heir to the throne.

Despite this, after Richard died in 1199, John was proclaimed king of England, and came to an agreement with Philip II of France to recognise John's possession of the continental Angevin lands at the peace treaty of Le Goulet in 1200.

Henry II moved in support of Richard, and Henry the Young King died from dysentery at the end of the campaign.

The society also lost several major figures over the period: Richard Lovell Edgeworth ceased regular involvement in the society's activities when he returned to Ireland in 1782, John Whitehurst died in London in 1788, and Thomas Day died the following year.

In 1724, his father took Sterne to Roger's wealthy brother, Richard, so that Sterne could attend Hipperholme Grammar School near Halifax ; Sterne never saw his father again as Roger was ordered to Jamaica where he died of a fever in 1731.

Should Richard die without an heir, the territory would return to Philip, and if Philip died without an heir, those lands would be considered a part of Normandy.

* Richard III of Capua ( died 10 June 1120 )

* Richard III of Gaeta ( died 1140 )

Richard was only 9 years old when his father died.

When his brother Edward IV died in April 1483, Richard was named Lord Protector of the realm for Edward's son and successor, the 12-year-old King Edward V. As the new king travelled to London from Ludlow, Richard met and escorted him to London where he was lodged in the Tower of London.

Richard died during the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last English king to die in battle ( and the only English king to do so on English soil since Harold II at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 ).

Richard and Anne had one son, born in 1473, Edward of Middleham, who died ( April 1484 ) not long after being created Prince of Wales.

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

Two days later Henry II died in Chinon, and Richard succeeded him as King of England, Duke of Normandy, and Count of Anjou.

Richard died on 6 April 1199 in the arms of his mother ; it was later said that " As the day was closing, he ended his earthly day.

Among the most important were the Journal Œconomique ( 1721 – 1772 ), which promoted agronomy and rational husbandry and the Journal du commerce ( 1759 – 1762 ), which was heavily influenced by the Irishman Richard Cantillon ( 1680 – 1734 ), and two dominated by physiocrats ; the Journal de l ' agriculture, du commerce et des finances ( 1765 – 1774 ) and the Ephémérides du citoyen ( 1767 – 1772 and 1774 – 1776 ).

In 1772 Richard Sheridan fought a famous duel against Captain Thomas Mathews.

In 1772, Richard Sheridan, at the age of 21, eloped with and subsequently married Elizabeth Ann Linley and set up house in London on a lavish scale with little money and no immediate prospects of any — other than his wife's dowry.

( Other claims might be made for John Lombe's silk mill in Derby ( 1721 ), or Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill ( 1772 )— purpose built to fit the equipment it held and taking the material through the various manufacturing processes.

In 1772, she married Richard Habgood of Welford, also in Berkshire, and the two moved to the Midlands.

In 1772, while at the Summer Spanish Court in Aranjuez, he received correspondence from Richard Wall, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs.

* 1772 / 73 John Wells Richard Cox

imitator Richard Conyers ( 1772 ); the more overtly Calvinistic Anglican

* William Richard Annesley, 3rd Earl Annesley ( 1772 – 1838 )

* Richard Dana ( lawyer ) ( 1699 – 1772 ), American lawyer and politician, father of Francis Dana,

She died in 1772, leaving him with four children: Elizabeth, Joseph, Mary, and Richard.

In 1772, the nonconformist minister Richard Price published a pamphlet on methods of reducing the national debt.

* Richard Farrington ( 1702 – 1772 ), Welsh Anglican priest and antiquarian

Born on 2 January 1765 in Reepham near Norwich ( where he was baptised at All Saints on 13 January in the same year ), Richard Westall moved to London after the death of his mother and the bankruptcy of his father in 1772.

* 1772 – 1777: Richard Barrington

Rhodes was born in Leeds on Christmas Day 1772, the second son of Richard Rhodes and his wife, Mercy.

Following his death in 1772, the business was continued by his two sons, Richard ( 1734 – 1811 ) and Robert ( 1745 – 93 ).

This incarnation of the horse was both confirmed on contemporary maps and in 1772 measured fairly exactly by Richard Gough, who described it ( in an 1806 reference ) as " croup to chest, 34 feet ; shoulder to ears, under jaw to bottom of chest, 10 feet ; shouder to ground, 16 feet or 57 hands ; length of off foreleg, 12 feet ; length of near foreleg, 9 feet ; hindlegs, 10 feet ; belly, 19. 5 feet ; sheath, 8 feet ; tail ( more like a lion's ), 18 feet ; width of each leg 1 foot ; diameter of the eye, 1 foot 2 inches long ".

* Richard Beckett ( 1772 – 1809 ), English amateur cricketer and soldier

Gibson was born in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, of an old, distinguished New England family ; one of his great-great-grandfathers was the jurist Richard Dana ( 1699 – 1772 ), who was the great-grandfather of the famous author Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

The famous Bat & Ball Inn, erroneously known as the " cradle of cricket ", is immediately next to the Down and its landlord for 10 years from 1762 to 1772 was Hambledon captain Richard Nyren.