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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Major Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson
Major Sir John Larkins Cheese Richardson , the third Superintendent of the Province of Otago, was born in Bengal, on the 4th of August 1810. After receiving his education at Addiscombe College, he returned to India as an artillery cadet, and remained in the military service of the East India Company till 1851. He visited New Zealand in 1852, and published the result of his impressions in a volume entitled A “Summer's Excursion.” He also published a poem in blank verse, entitled, ”the First Chirstian Martyr in New Zealand.” Major Richardson went back to England, but returned to settle in the Molyneux district of Otago in 1856. Subsequently he was elected to the provincial Council of Otago, of which he was chosen Speaker. This office the resigned in November, 1864, on Becoming Postmaster-General in the Weld Government, in which he subsequently held also the portfolio of Commissioner of Customs. Sir John was a member of the Stafford Government, without portfolio, from August, 1866 to May, 1868. He was a member of the House of Representatives for Dunedin from 1861 to 1863, when he resigned, but was returned for a Taranaki constituency in 1866. Having been nominated to the Legislative Council, he was appointed Speaker of that body, and occupied the position for nearly eleven years, in recognition of his honour of Knighthood from her Majesty Queen Victoria. Sir John, who was Chancellor of the 16th of December, 1878. He was capable and conscientions in all his dealing, and a man who neither feared his opponents, nor courted favour from his friends.
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The Late Sir J. L. C. Richardson.