Title: Walter Lindesay Richardson MD
Description: Dr Walter Richardson is known to readers - if at all - as the father of novelist Henry Handel Richardson and as the model for her character Richard Mahony. Richardson is a significant figure in his own right. Not only a dedicated doctor and obstetrician in Ballarat, he was a scholar, a thinker and an eloquent contributor in the debate between science and religion in Melbourne and elsewhere in the 1870s.
Subjects: Physicians, Biography, History, 19th Century, Spiritualism, History
Places: Australia, Victoria
People: Walter Richardson (1825 or 1826-1879), Walter Lindesay Richardson, Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946)
Time periods: 19th century