page_title: David Lester Richardson
hierarchical_section_title: David Lester Richardson
caption_attribution_description: English: Pen sketch of David Lester Richardson
context_page_description: David Lester Richardson was an officer of the East India Company, who throughout his life followed literary pursuits as a poet and periodical writer, and as editor and proprietor of literary journals. A skilled linguist, he was in later life an educator, serving as professor of English at Hindu College, where he inspired the Bengali poet Michael Madhusudan Dutta.
context_section_description: David Lester Richardson (1801 – 17 November 1865) was an officer of the  East India Company, who throughout his life followed literary pursuits as a poet and periodical writer, and as editor and proprietor of literary journals. A skilled linguist, he was in later life an educator, serving as professor of English at Hindu College, where he inspired the Bengali poet Michael Madhusudan Dutta.
caption: Pen sketch of David Lester Richardson
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