Career
Richardson's working life represented his eclectic interests:
- National Physical Laboratory (1903–1904).
- University College Aberystwyth (1905–1906).
- chemist, National Peat Industries (1906–1907).
- National Physical Laboratory (1907–1909).
- manager of the physical and chemical laboratory, Sunbeam Lamp Company (1909–1912).
- Manchester College of Technology (1912–1913).
- Meteorological Office - as superintendent of Eskdalemuir Observatory (1913–1916).
- Friends Ambulance Unit in France (1916–1919).
- Meteorological Office at Benson, Oxfordshire (1919–1920).
- Head of the Physics Department at Westminster Training College (1920–1929).
- Principal, Paisley Technical College, now part of the University of the West of Scotland (1929–1940).
During 1926, he was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society
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