Richard was a physician in Scotland, well known as a phrenologist.
Research Notes
No marriage record located.
Sources
Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Family Lists, image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.ie/record/browse?id=ire%2fquaker%2fmmv111m-1%2f0104 : accessed 08 March 2020), birth of Richard Abell in Cork on 5d 7mo (Jul) 1789, father: Richard, mother: Elizabeth; citing Cork MM Family lists 1671-1872, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives.
Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Family Lists, image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.ie/record/browse?id=ire%2fquaker%2fmmv111m-1%2f0104 : accessed 08 March 2020), death of Richard Abell (who 'left Friends') on 11d 5mo (May) 1840 in Ediburgh (or near it); citing Cork MM Family lists 1671-1872, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives.
Reference to Richard Abell in biography of Joshua Abell, Dictionary of Irish Biography[1]
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