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Reginald McCarthy Richardson was born in 1913 in Halifax, the son of Maurice B. and Margaret (McCarthy) Richardson. Early in his career he was employed as a warrant officer for the Department of National Defence. During World War II he served in Belgium and the Netherlands with the Canadian forces. After the war he continued to serve with the military in Ottawa and Western Canada, retiring in the 1960s. He later worked as a psychiatric assistant at the Nova Scotia Hospital. After his retirement from that institution he moved to Windsor, N.S. and died on 15 January 2001. Throughout his lifetime Richardson had an interest in Nova Scotia history and genealogy, and was an avid collector of art works, signed portraits, books, antiques and collectibles, some of which he donated to museums and other institutions. A prolific letter-writer, he frequently wrote to newspaper editors and public figures, offering his opinion on various topics of the day such as gun control, capital punishment, the environment and health care. Many of these opinions were published in newspapers such as the Halifax Chronicle-Herald.