Constituency : Liverpool Exchange 1906-10
Richard narrowly unseated the Liberal Unionist, Charles McArthur.
Richard was a solicitor's son from Waterford. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He became a professor of Criminal and Constitutional Law there and published a couple of books on criminal law. He was also an expert on land law .He was strongly opposed to the Boer War and a letter was issued against him as a Boer partisan when he stood in 1900.. Campbell-Bannerman appointed him Attorney-General for Ireland in 1905.
Richard was elevated to the Bench at the end of 1909 and so did not defend his seat in January 1910.
Richard was criticised by the writer Maurie Healy " his knowledge of his fellow men was not extensive, and erred towards charity".
In 1914 Richard was promoted to Lord Justice for Ireland. He lost the stomach for the job after the Ester Rising and was in any case suffering from what was diagnosed as "slow paralysis ", possibly Parkinson's Disease.
One of Richard's hobbies was bell ringing.
He died in 1923 aged 63.
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