Henry T. Richardson
Henry Thomas Richardson
1826 Born in Kensington, London, son of Henry Richardson[1]
1830 His father, Henry Richardson of Bala, invented the tubular lifeboat, having had the idea from observation of a wreck at Weymouth, and an examination of Blanchard's cylindrical air pontoon as used by the Royal Engineers in bridges and rafts[2]
1848 H. T. Richardson, then an officer in the Fourth Dragoon Guards, had a boat built in Manchester using the tubular principle, in which he journeyed to Flint
1851 Submitted a model to the Duke of Northumberland's competition; it was also exhibited at the Exhibition of 1851. Mr. Richardson then had another boat built in Manchester using the tubular system.
1851 A magistrate living in Bala with his father Henry Richardson 59, and his mother, Caroline Richardson 49[3]
1878 Died in Pwllheli[4]