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A grave headstone monument with angel pointing upwards and holding a scroll inscribed Revelation Chapter Xː "Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven [...] He was holding a little scroll, which lay open in his hand. He planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land [...] Then the angel I had seen [...] raised his right hand to heaven [...]" The City of London Cemetery, Aldersbrook Road, Newham, England.

The monument is dedicated to Rev Thomas Richardson (born 9 January 1830 at Lancaster) who, after training at St Bees in Cumberland financed by his uncle Joseph Richardson, the Mayor of Leeds, was a curate for three London parishes, and while a parish priest preached regularly at the Royal Exchange and London theatres. In an 1860 House of Lords debate which called into question the efficacy of clergy preaching in theatres, Lord Shaftesbury quoted Richardson who saidː "My congregations have increased ever since I preached at the Garrick, and the increase has been from the lowest orders." In 1859 until 1870 he was the first vicar of St Matthew Pell Street at Princes Square, part of the parish and district of St George in the East. While at St Matthew's Richardson conducted weddings for German sugar workers of a local sugar refinery owned by William Wainwright, who found marriage fees at the German Church too high, and to do this he learnt and conducted services in German.

He was for 30 years from 1871 to his death on 15 August 1901, the first vicar of St Benet's Stepney. While at St Benet's he established a branch of the temperance organisation for working class children, the Band of Hope, which was founded in 1847 and is today styled Hope UK. He wrote a series of tracts, Faithful Boughs, and in 1876 founded the Bible and Prayer Union whose membership rose to 30,000 members worldwide by 1900. He advocated parochial temperance societies, including in his 1870 address to the Church Congress, and was secretary of the Church of England and Ireland Temperance Reformation Society which listed total abstainers among 500 Anglican clergy. He preached for the Home Mission Union throughout his life through congregational visits and on the street, distributing religious tracts; on one occasion he walked from Bournemouth to London distributing them. Richardson’s wife Anna (died 4 July 1906 age 71), whom he married during his time at St Matthew's, wrote a memoir of her husband under the title Forty Years' Ministry in East London (Hodder & Stoughton 1903), using his diaries and notebooks.[1] She is also buried and memorialized here, as is his daughter Edith Moore (died 1 May 1902 age 40).

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