Lawyer
Centurion, 1910–1930
Born 23 March 1849 in Boston, Massachusetts
Died 24 May 1930 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried East Cemetery
, Litchfield, Connecticut
Proposed by William B. Hornblower and Howard Mansfield
Elected 5 November 1910 at age sixty-one
Archivist’s Note: Brother of William R. Richards
Century Memorial
George Richards was a high authority on insurance law; his lectures on the subject were part of the course at the two New York law schools and his text-book on it is standard authority. He had practiced law in New York City for more than half a century. Like many other professional celebrities, he had a longer background of his own; he played four years on the Yale base-ball team from 1868 to 1872, sang on the college glee club and was one of the “Yale Lit” editors.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1931 Century Association Yearbook
