Colonial Despatches

Charles Richards seems to have joined either the Royal Navy or the British Civil service in 1846.1 He first appears in the despatches in 1858, as a correspondent from the Department of the Comptroller of Transport Services.2 From at least 1860 until his retirement in 1870, he served as the Comptroller of Victualling for the Admiralty, under various titles.3

• 1. Great Britain. Admiralty. The Navy List [1869 no. 4 December] (London: John Murray, 1870), 118. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t3329gb0x
• 2. Richards to Merivale, 29 September 1858, CO 60:2, no. 9929, 15. B585AD06.html
• 3. The Royal Kalendar [1860] (London: R. & A. Suttaby, 1860), 234. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t9m427g3m; The Royal Kalendar [1866] (London: R. & A. Suttaby, 1866) 243. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t8nd5ck5h; Pall Mall Gazette (London), 14 May 1870, 3.

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