John Samuel Richardson, Baron Richardson, LVOFRCP (16 June 1910 – 15 August 2004) was a British physician, President of the General Medical Council, 1973–80.[1][2]
He trained at, and later worked for St Thomas' Hospital. During his career he attended King George VI and later Harold Macmillan. He was particularly proud of his role as chairman of the Joint Consultants' Committee from 1967 to 1972. He represented the JCC on the so-called Cogwheel Working Party (First Report of the Joint Working Party on the Organisation of Medical Work in Hospitals, 1967).[3]
He married the artist Sybil Trist in 1933. They remained married until her death in 1991.
Coat of arms of John Richardson, Baron Richardson
Crest
The head of a rhinoceros erased Sable behind the horn a scroll inscribed with the words "Till Time Ceases" in letters Gules.
Escutcheon
Sable on a fess engrailed Or between in chief an open book Proper bound Gules edged Gold between two mullets and in base a swan Argent a lion passant guardant also Gules.
Supporters
Two horses reguardant the dexter a Grey with Saddlecloth of the Metropolitan Police Force the sinister also a Grey with Saddlecloth of the Royal Army Medical Corps both saddled bridled with headstall horse-hair plume and breast girth all with Silver buckles and bosses Proper.
^‘RICHARDSON’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2012; online edn, November 2012 accessed 10 September 2013
^Alex Paton, ‘Richardson, John Samuel, Baron Richardson (1910–2004)’, first published January 2008, 1156 words, with portrait illustration doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/93966
