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RICHARD, an English English Cavalier poet; born in Woolwich, England, in 1618. He was the eldest son of a Kentish knight of old family, and was educated at the Charterhouse and at Oxford. In April, 1642, he was committed to the Gatehouse at Westminster for presenting to the House of Commons a petition from the royalists of Kent "for the restoring the king to his rights, and for settling the government," and was only released on bail of $200,000.
In 1646 he took part in the siege of Duntria. Sometime American correspondent of the London "Morning Post," and from 1896 wrote on American topics for the "National Review," London. In 1900 he investigated British labor conditions and in 1903 was appointed by the United States Government to investigate British trade unions and industries. Author of "The Supreme Surrender" (1901); "Protection in the United States" (1904); "American Life in Town and Country" (1905); "Short History of Labor Legislation in Great Britain" (1907); "Americans at Home" (1908); "The American People" (1909-1911); "The Real Truth About Germany" (1914).