Linsdall Richardson FRSE FGS FLS (24 December 1881 – 1 January 1967)^[1] was a 20th-century British geologist and academic author who was awarded the Lyell Medal in 1937.^[2]

Linsdall Richardson was born in Burnley in Lancashire on 24 December 1881.^[1] He was the son of Rev John Linsdall Richardson (b.1849), then a curate, and his wife, Fanny Sutcliffe of Burnley.^[3] The family moved to Holton, Suffolk in 1882 and to Cratfield in Norfolk in 1884.^[4]

He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol. He spent most of his life as Director of Cheltenham school of Science and Technology. In 1908 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Edward William Prevost, Alexander Morison McAldowie, John Walter Gregory and John Horne.^[5]

In the First World War he worked on conscription with the Ministry of National Service.

He died on New Years Day, 1 January 1967.

He donated a large number of borehole samples of Quaternary sands and gravels to the Cheltenham Museum.^[6]

• Wells and Springs of Warwickshire (1928) Full-text at the Internet Archive
• Wells and Springs of Somerset (1928) Full-text at the British Geological Survey^[7]
• The Country around Moreton-in-Marsh (1929) Full-text at the Internet Archive
• Wells and Springs in Worcestershire (1930) Full-text at the Internet Archive
• Wells and Springs of Gloucestershire (1930) Full-text at the British Geological Survey^[8]
• Wells and Springs in Leicestershire (1931) Full-text at the Internet Archive
• The Country around Cirencester (1933) Full-text at the Internet Archive
• Wells and Springs of Herefordshire (1935) Full-text at the British Geological Survey^[9]
• Geology of the Country around Witney (1946) Full-text at the Internet Archive