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Peter Richards (Royal Navy officer)

Royal Navy Admiral (1787–1869)

Field	Value
honorific_prefix	Admiral
name	Sir Peter Richards
honorific_suffix
image	The Signing of the Treaty of Nanking.jpg
image_size	300
caption	Signing of the Treaty of Nanking (1842). Richards is seated in the front row (second from right) between Maj. George Malcolm and Lt. Col. Francis Spencer Hawkins.
birth_date	1787
death_date	16 March 1869
allegiance	United Kingdom United Kingdom
branch	[[File:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg	23px]] Royal Navy
serviceyears	1798–1865
rank	Admiral
commands	HMS Asia
HMS Volage
HMS Cornwallis
HMS Hibernia
HMS Royal Sovereign
HMS Cumberland
HMS Boscawen
battles	First Opium War
Crimean War
awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

HMS Volage HMS Cornwallis HMS Hibernia HMS Royal Sovereign HMS Cumberland HMS Boscawen Crimean War

Admiral Sir Peter Richards KCB (1787 – 16 March 1869) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Third Sea Lord.

Naval career

Grave of Sir Peter Richards at St Andrew's Church, Ham

Richards joined the Royal Navy in 1798. Promoted to captain in 1828, Richards was given command of HMS Asia and HMS Volage before commanding HMS Cornwallis in the First Opium War. He later commanded HMS Hibernia, HMS Royal Sovereign, HMS Cumberland and HMS Boscawen.

As a rear-admiral he was appointed Third Sea Lord in 1854 and served in that role during the Crimean War.

St. Peter's Memorial Mission Chapel at Saltash Passage near St Budeaux in Cornwall was built in his memory but damaged in World War II and then demolished in 1956.{{cite web

He is buried at St Andrew's Church, Ham, Surrey.

References

[http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=81 William Loney RN]
He was promoted vice-admiral on the Reserved List in April, 1862.{{London Gazette. (20 May 1862)
[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=041-phillimore_2&cid=-1#-1 The Phillimore Papers] National Archives
"Sir Peter Richards, K.C.B., R.N.". Commodore Trust.

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