Victor
York
(Vic)
Richardson
O.B.E.
Born in Unley, South Australia, Australia
Son of Valentine Yaxley Richardson
and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Vida Yvonne (Knapman) Richardson
— married
1919 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Father of
Jeanne Ellen (Richardson) Chappell
Died
at age 75
in Fullarton, South Australia, Australia
Profile last modified
| Created 12 Feb 2018
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| Preceded by Bill Woodful |
20th Australian Mens Test Cricket Captain Nov 1935 to Mar 1936  |
Succeeded by Don Bradman |
Biography
Vic Richardson O.B.E. is Notable.
Vic Richardson was born in the suburb of Unley a suburb in the inner south in Adelaide, South Australia in 1894, He was the son of Valentine Yaxley Richardson and Rebecca Malloney.[1]
In 1919 he married Vida Knapman. Vida was the daughter of hotelier Alf Knapman (1867–1918) and they had four children.
Vic Richardson was one of Australia's greatest all-round sportsmen, competing at national or international level in cricket, baseball, Australian Rules Football and golf, as well as excelling at tennis, basketball, lacrosse and swimming.
Richardson made his senior Australian rules football debut for the Sturt Football Club in the South Australian National Football League in 1915. And in a career interrupted by World War I, he played 114 games for Sturt, kicking 23 goals. Also Winning the coveted Magarey Medal for the League's Best and Fairest player in 1920. Originally he lost the vote by countback at the time but In 1998, the SANFL awarded Richardson, and everyone else who had originally lost on either a countback of votes or some kind of referral system, retrospective medals.
Vic died in 1969.[1]
He was appointed an O.B.E. in 1954, and was commemorated in the naming of the Victor Richardson Gates at Adelaide Oval. Richardson died while watching sport on television at home at Fullarton on 30 October 1969 and was cremated. His grandsons Ian, Gregory and Trevor Chappell were at this time in the early stages of their own distinguished cricket careers.
Victor Richardson was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1991 and the South Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2003.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 10 November 2020), memorial page for Victor York Richardson (7 Sep 1894–30 Oct 1969), Find a Grave Memorial no. 141172313, citing Centennial Park Cemetery, Pasadena, Mitcham City, South Australia, Australia.
- South Australian Births, Deaths & Marriages: BIRTH: RICHARDSON, Victor York - gender: M - father: Valentine Yaxley RICHARDSON - district: Adelaide - book/page: 549/354 - birth year: 1894. first accessed online from the GENEALOGY SA Online Database Search on the 20th of November, 2022 at: https://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-database-search
- South Australian Births, Deaths & Marriages: MARRIAGE: RICHARDSON Victor York - spouse: Knapman, Vida Yvonne - district: Adelaide - book/page: 278/195 - marriage year: 1919. first accessed online from the GENEALOGY SA Online Database Search on the 20th of November, 2022 at: https://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-database-search
- South Australian Births, Deaths & Marriages: MARRIAGE: RICHARDSON, Victor York - gender: M - district: Adelaide - book/page: 77A/7968 - death year: 1969. first accessed online from the GENEALOGY SA Online Database Search on the 20th of November, 2022 at: https://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-database-search
Further Reading
- Wikipedia: Vic Richardson
Wikidata: Item Q3556852, en:Wikipedia 
- R. M. Gibbs, Richardson, Victor York (1894–1969), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/richardson-victor-york-8205/text14355, published first in hardcopy 1988, accessed online 20 September 2020.
- VIC RICHARDSON by John Devaney from the AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL website first accessed online on the 20th of November, 2022 at: https://australianfootball.com/players/player/vic%2Brichardson/821
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