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RICHARD, an English philosopher; born in Tynton, Glamorganshire, Feb. 22, 1723. He was a Dissenting minister, friend of Benjamin Franklin, and sympathized warmly with the American colonists. His tables of vital statistics and calculations of expectancy of life were the basis of modern annuities and life insurance. His principal writings are: "An Appeal to the Public on the Subject of the National Debt" (1771); "Civil Liberty and the Justice and Policy of the War with America" (1776); "The American Revolution and the Means of Rendering It a Benefit to the World" (1784). He died April 19, 1791.