File: Kellerbeach1. jpg | People also swim recreationally, at Kellar Beach in Richmond's Miller / Knox Regional Shoreline.

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

Richmond's elite society has also been portrayed in various popular culture references, such as in 1920s novels by Ellen Glasgow and James Branch Cabell, or the 1990s television sitcom A Different World, which featured the character Whitley Gilbert, an obnoxious and wealthy African American debutante.

Richmond's public school district also runs one of Virginia's four public charter schools, the Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts, which was founded in 2010.

At the battle of Bosworth Field, Lord Stanley ( who is also Richmond's stepfather ) and his followers desert Richard's side, whereupon Richard calls for the execution of George Stanley, Lord Stanley's son.

Richmond's importance has waned since the 1930s, however, as the railways have also come to play a lesser role in the economy.

Two other nephews, from his sister's marriage to Hawthorn legend Michael Tuck, also play in the AFL – Richmond's Shane Tuck and Travis Tuck, who played for Hawthorn.

Evidently Mr Stead's Kent team also won two games earlier that season against the Duke of Richmond's XI ( also representative of Sussex ).

It also performs crossover duty for travelers between Washington ( reached by Interstate 95 ) and southeastern Virginia ( reached by Interstate 64 ), and links many of Richmond's suburbs ( such as Short Pump, Mechanicsville, Highland Springs, Varina, and Hopewell ).

There are also groups such as Tricycle Gardens actively working to reclaim garden space in some of the needier parts of Richmond's neighborhoods.

Richmond's work has also been seen in film and on television.

Richmond's degrees are also designated by the Department for Children, Schools and Families of Her Majesty ’ s Government in the United Kingdom ( Recognized Awards ).

Stead's team had earlier won two games against the Duke of Richmond's XI ( also representing Sussex ) and their victory over Gage's XI was reported as " the third time this summer that the Kent men have been too expert for those of Sussex ".

Richmond's youth section is also highly successful-London Irish fullback Delon Armitage was a member of the mini section, and London Wasps ' centre Dominic Waldouck earned an England callup for the 2008 tour of New Zealand, having progressed through the agegroups at Richmond.

London Wasps No. 8 Hugo Ellis, another product of Richmond's youth section, captained Wales U16s, as well as England at U19 and was the England U20 Captain in the 2008 Grand Slam winning side, also reaching the finals of the iRB Junior World Championship.

He was secretary to the Royal Commission on Railways ( 1865 – 1867 ), the Duke of Richmond's Commission on London Water ( 1867 – 1869 ), also taking part in the subsequent proceedings for establishing a constant supply, the Royal Commission on the Disposal of London Sewage ( 1882 – 1884 ), and the departmental committee on the science museums at South Kensington in 1885.

Unknown to Robert E. Lee, Grant pulled out of Cold Harbor and stealthily moved his Army south of the James River, freed Maj. Gen. Butler from the Bermuda Hundred, and attacked Petersburg, Richmond's central railroad hub.

Slaves were imported from Africa to Richmond's Manchester docks, and were bought and sold at the same market.

To facilitate the transfer of cargo from the flat-bottomed bateaux above the fall line to the ocean-faring ships below, George Washington helped design the James River and Kanawha Canal in the 18th century to bypass Richmond's rapids, with the intent of providing a water route across the Appalachians to the Kanawha River.

Richmond's government changed in 2004 from a council-manager form of government to an at-large, popularly elected Mayor.

Richmond's shield logo from 1977 to 1988Richmond won its last premiership with a then record-breaking margin of 81 points over arch-rivals Collingwood in 1980.

Most of Richmond's original buildings were built from the mid-1840s through the 1860s and consisted of Greek Revival rural farmhouse and Richmond's commercial district.

Richmond was eventually willed by Francis II, Duke of Brittany to Henry VII of England, whose grandson Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset was independent Richmond's first duke, to distinguish from an earlier junior status as county.

The University of Richmond's name leads some to believe that it is a public institution drawing students primarily from within Virginia.

As a teenager, he walked from his home in Lennox St, Richmond to the Punt Road Oval, where he was greeted by Richmond's Fourth coach Bill Boromeo.

On April 14, 2003, the remains of a fetus washed ashore from San Francisco Bay in Richmond's Point Isabel Regional Shoreline, north of the Berkeley Marina, where Peterson had been boating the day of Laci's disappearance.

The television network showed highlights of Richmond's victory at the track from 1986.

WRVA currently has two locally originated programs in its weekday lineup, both of which occur in the drive times: WRVA has signed Leland Conway for ( afternoon drive ) after Doc Thompson's unexpected departure from this slot in February 2012, and Richmond's weekday morning news with Jimmy Barrett ( morning drive ).

Conshafter had entered a local Richmond radio station contest, the Y101 Rock Off ( from local radio rock station WDYL-Y101 ) and won a slot in Richmond's Y101 Birthday Bash.

A feature of Richmond's career was the support he received from his wife Sarah, her interest being evident in surviving letters.

Perhaps the most infamous game to be played on the Green took place the following year on 23 August when a Mr Chambers organised an eleven a side game against the Duke of Richmond's team from Sussex.

According to Richmond's Maymont Foundation, " Major Dooley's leadership of various civic endeavors runs as a continuous thread through the history of Richmond, from the early 1870s through the early 1920s.

At noon on March 1, 2001, the station fell silent for a few moments, as the studio-transmitter link was changed, and then signed back from the Cox studios as " Richmond's New Rock ".

Attention is now drawn to Wellington ( Plummer ), who attends the Duchess of Richmond's ball, where Picton and other generals are present.

Although a vigorous Conservative and Ultra-Tory for most of his career, Richmond's anger with Wellington over Catholic Emancipation led him to lead the Ultra's into joining Earl Grey's reforming Whig government in 1830 ( Lang, 1999 ).

More importantly, however, he went on to maintain the same high level of performance throughout the season, kicking precisely 100 goals for the year to become the first player to top the ton since Richmond's Jack Titus in 1940.

Sheedy played a key role in Richmond's premiership sides of the mid-70s.

His last appearance in the House of Lords was on 7 April 1778, on the occasion of the Duke of Richmond's motion for an address praying the king to conclude peace with America on any terms.

At a ball in Brussels ( based on the Duchess of Richmond's famous ball on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo ) George gives Becky a note inviting her to run away with him.

Granlund secured a position for her with producer Harry Richmond's act and arranged for her to do a screen test which he sent to producer Harry Rapf in Hollywood.

Richmond's economy is primarily driven by law, finance, and government, with federal, state, and local governmental agencies, as well as notable legal and banking firms, located in the downtown area.

Contributing to Richmond's resurgence was the first successful electrically powered trolley system in the United States, the Richmond Union Passenger Railway.

In 1900, the Census Bureau reported Richmond's population as 62. 1 % white and 37. 9 % black.

The 2009 TNT television drama HawthoRNe, starring Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Vartan, is set at the fictitious Richmond-Trinity Hospital which is based on Richmond's Community Hospital in Church Hill.

This new city council elected Richmond's first black mayor, Henry L. Marsh.