page_title: David Thomas Richardson
section_title: Departure for England
hierarchical_section_title: David Thomas Richardson / Departure for England
caption_attribution_description: English: Capture of the East Indiaman Lord Nelson by the French privateer Bellone, under Jacques François Perroud, on 14 August 1803Français&#160;: L'abordage du vaisseau Lord Nelson de 50 canons de 18 par le corsaire bordelais La Bellone de 32 canons de 8 (25 thermidor an XII)
context_page_description: David Thomas Richardson was an officer of the Bengal Army or the East India Company and a Hindu scholar who established the Company's staff training college at Barasat, but who died with his family when, returning to England from India, their ship, the Lord Nelson was lost in a hurricane in 1808.
context_section_description: By 1808, after 30 years of Indian service, Richardson determined to return to England, retiring on 29 September 1808 departing Madras on 26 October on Lord Nelson. A month later, on the 20 November, the fleet with which Lord Nelson was sailing was hit by a hurricane; by the 21 November at around 8°30′S 80°0′E the fleet had been scattered; Lord Nelson and two other East Indiamen, Glory and Experiment, also disappeared without a trace. Richardson, Violet and their three surviving children were lost.
  The Richardsons are commemorated in a now ruined mausoleum near Dinlabyre; Catherine Eliza Richardson, who was married to David Thomas's brother Gilbert (who died in 1801), reflected on the loss in one of her poems.
caption: Lord Nelson, earlier in its career, being captured by Bellone
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