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Legh Richmond
1772–1827
An Anglican clergyman and popular religious writer, he became widely known for stories and tracts that brought evangelical faith into everyday life. His best-known works, including The Dairyman’s Daughter, helped make him one of the most widely read devotional authors of the early 19th century.
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The Dairyman's Daughter
by Legh Richmond
The Annals of the Poor
by Legh Richmond
About the author
Born in Liverpool on January 29, 1772, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was ordained in the Church of England in the late 1790s. Early in his ministry he served in Brading and Yaverland on the Isle of Wight, where his pastoral work shaped the simple, vivid religious storytelling that later made him famous.
He is best remembered for evangelical narratives such as The Dairyman’s Daughter, The Young Cottager, and The Negro Servant. These works focused on ordinary people and everyday experience, and they reached a huge readership in Britain and beyond through cheap editions and religious societies.
Later he became chaplain to the Lock Hospital in London and rector of Turvey in Bedfordshire. He died in 1827, but his writing continued to circulate for decades, remembered for its warmth, moral seriousness, and influence on popular Christian reading.