Harold Richards

{{Short description|Welsh Anglican priest}}

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John Harold Richards (13 December 1869{{cite book |title=The Official Year-book of the National Assembly of the Church of England |date=1933 |publisher=Church of England National Assembly |page=94 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DRMMAQAAMAAJ |access-date=9 February 2020 }} – 23 August 1952) was a Welsh Anglican priest.

He was born in Trawsgoed, Llanafan, Cardiganshire,1911 England Census and educated at Wrexham Grammar SchoolWho Was Who 1897–2007. London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}} and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.{{acad|id=RCRS892JH|name=Richards, John Harold}} He was ordained in 1896The Times, 24 September 1895, p. 4, "Ordinations Ely" and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Matthew's, Cambridge.The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory. London, John Phillips, 1900 After this he held incumbencies at Bordesley, Coleshill and St Augustine's, Edgbaston. From 1920 to 1938 he was Archdeacon of Aston. In 1937 he became Provost of Birmingham Cathedral, and held the post for 11 years. He died in 1952."Obituary – The Very Rev. J. H. Richards A Former Provost of Birmingham". The Times, 26 August 1952, p. 6.