Editing Hugh Richardson (magistrate)

{{Short description|Canadian lawyer and judge (1826–1913)}}
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[[Image:HughRichardson.jpg|thumb|right|[[Lieutenant-Colonel]] Hugh Richardson]]
'''Hugh Richardson''' (21 July 1826 &ndash; 15 July 1913) was a stipendiary [[magistrate]] for the [[Assiniboia#District_of_Assiniboia|Assiniboia district]] of the [[North-West Territories]] of Canada. Richardson was the man who, at the conclusion of the 1885 [[trial of Louis Riel]], sentenced [[Louis Riel|Riel]] to [[hanging|hang]], and who at the 1885 trial of [[Big Bear]] sentenced Big Bear to three years in prison.

Richardson was born in [[London]], England in 1826 and came to [[York, Upper Canada|York]] (later [[Toronto]]) with his family in 1831. He studied at [[Osgoode Hall Law School]], was called to the bar in 1847 and set up practice in [[Woodstock, Ontario|Woodstock]]. He was crown attorney for [[Oxford County, Ontario|Oxford County]] from 1856 to 1862. He helped organize the local militia battalion, later becoming commander, and served at [[La Prairie, Quebec|La Prairie]], [[Canada East]] in 1865 with Colonel [[Garnet Joseph Wolseley]] and at [[Sarnia]] during the [[Fenian raids]]. After he was named a stipendiary magistrate in 1876, he moved to [[Battleford, Saskatchewan|Battleford]], [[Northwest Territories|North-West Territories]]; in 1883, he moved to [[Regina, Saskatchewan|Regina]] after the seat of government for the territories was moved there. He was in 1887 appointed senior [[judge]] of the [[Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories]]. Richardson served as acting lieutenant governor for the territories in 1897 and in 1898. He retired in 1903 and returned to [[Ottawa]]; his daughter  Mary, who had married [[Donald Alexander Macdonald (officer)|Donald Alexander Macdonald]], was living there.

He died in Ottawa in 1913 and is interred in the cemetery of the [[Old St. Thomas Church|St. Thomas Anglican ("Old English") Church]], in [[St. Thomas, Ontario]].

== External links ==
*[http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7667 Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online'']

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