Solomon Richards

Colonel Solomon Richards was buried in the north cloister of Westminster Abbey on 6th October 1691 but nothing marks his grave. He was baptised on 14th November 1619 at St Andrews Holborn in London, son of Solomon and Anne. By his wife Abigail Goddard he had a son Goddard, born in 1661, who married Dorothy Jacob. 

He served in Cromwell's army and held the Solsborough estate near Enniscorthy in Co. Wexford in Ireland. He was Governor of Wexford. In 1688 he formed the Leicestershire Regiment which pledged allegiance to the new monarch William III. William sent him to Londonderry (Derry) with Colonel Cunningham to protect the Protestants there from a siege by the Jacobite army. But following the advice of the town's governor the troops were not landed. On returning to England he and others were dismissed by the King and summoned before a Parliamentary Commission for dereliction of duty. Richards was exonerated.