1264 Joseph Richardson

Constituency : South  East  Durham  1892-5, 1898-1900

Joseph  unseated  the  excitable  Liberal  Unionist  Henry  Havelock-Allen  by  164  votes.

Joseph  was  a  shipowner  and  represented  the  General  Shipowner's  Society. He  expressed  approval  of  Mundella's  Merchant  Shipping  Bill  in  1894.

Havelock-Allen  won  the  seat  back  in  1895 by  114  votes   but  when  he  died  in  1898  Joseph  won  the  by-election. He  then  lost  the  seat  to  a  Liberal  Unionist  in  1900.

He  died  in  1902  aged  72.