According to the chronicler Charles Wriothesley, Richmond became sickly some time before he died, although Richmond's biographer Beverley A. Murphy cites his documented public appearances and activities in April and May of that year, without exciting comment on his health, as evidence to the contrary.

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

At the current location, Armstrong High School is one of only two of Richmond's public schools which are physically located slightly outside the corporate limits of the independent city in the East End.

* Two of Richmond's public school facilities are physically located slightly outside the corporate limits of the independent city in the East End.

The Green is presently home to two village cricket teams each affiliated with two of Richmond's favourite public houses, the Princes Head and The Cricketers.

The second Saturday in June brings out Richmond's annual " It Starts in Park Festival " which is designed to encourage healthly living and family fun for the summer months just as the school children are getting close to their summer vacations.

Blind Illusion co-founder Les Claypool ( who was a high school friend of Kirk Hammett at Richmond's DeAnza High School ) would unsuccessfully audition as Metallica's bassist in 1986 after Burton's bus accident death in Sweden.

Today, the town is locally known for its “ big box ” shopping store district along Fitzgerald Avenue, and Pinole Vista Shopping Center, which is continuous with Richmond's Hilltop Area.

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.

On Christmas Eve 1902 a devastating fire swept through most of Richmond's commercial district destroying 20 buildings.

His district includes most of the northern and western sections of Richmond, along with most of Richmond's western suburbs and portions of the Shenandoah Valley.

When her sons married they brought their wives to 110 East Leigh Street, her home in Richmond's Jackson Ward district, the center of Richmond's African American business and social life at the turn of the century.

Richmond's also dispatched 53 soldiers from the 96th Regiment from Auckland to Wellington.

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.

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.

Slindon won by 55 runs and the original scorecard is now among Richmond's papers in the possession of the West Sussex Records Office.

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.

Since all of Richmond's land occupies islands in a river delta, the city has plenty of rich, alluvial soil for agriculture, and was one of the first areas in British Columbia to be farmed by Europeans in the 19th century.

The drawback of Richmond's geographical location, was that since all the land averages just one metre above sea level, it was prone to flooding, especially during high tide.

Christ and the Woman of Samaria ( 1825 ), one of Richmond's early works, influenced by the art of William Blake.

On October 3, 2005, Richmond's lawyer, Charles Gittins filed an appeal based on the theory that Waruch himself was under investigation for the shooting of three Iraqi civilians, a mother and her two daughters, resulting in the death of one of the girls.

After simulcasting with WRVA during the early years of FM radio, in the 1970s, WRVA-FM became WRVQ, and was one of Richmond's first FM stations to switch to a top-40 rock music format.

Emma spent her teen-aged years at Richmond, where she was a débutante at one of Richmond's earliest " Germans ", which were formal social gatherings for the young people ( the name of these events had no relationship to Germany ).< ref >

At the time of its inception, the level of murders and shootings had regularly increased each year, with Richmond's murder-per-capita rates being one of the highest five for the country.

Richmond students have the opportunity to complement their studies in London with a semester, year or summer at one of Richmond's two international study centers.

Records have survived of four matches played by Richmond's team in the 1727 season.

In January 1972 Merhige ruled that students in Henrico and Chesterfield counties in Virginia would have to be bused to the Richmond city schools in order to decrease the high percentage of black students in Richmond's schools.

His statue is among those honoring Virginia patriots ( including Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, George Mason, Thomas Nelson, and John Marshall ) on Richmond's Washington Monument in Capitol Square.