![]() Little is known of his early years, other than that when he was about six years old the family moved to the south-west (where his brother John was born) and that young Richard was educated at a naval school in Bisley (where as a schoolboy HW had attended the annual schools’ rifle competition). ![]() RAR was born in Blackheath, London (the same area that HW went to school and lived until he went down to Devon in 1921) on. But that brief statement only tells the barest outline of a considerable, and interesting, connection. He was a great admirer of HW’s writing from an early age, and met HW during the latter’s years on the Norfolk Farm during the Second World War he much later illustrated a series of articles that HW wrote for the Daily Express. ![]() After the Second World War he lived and worked at Cley-next-the-Sea on the North Norfolk coast, setting up a Bird Observatory there. ![]() Richard Allan Richardson, notable ornithologist and bird artist, signed his work, and so tends to be known as, ‘R.A.R.’. ![]()
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