• Name: Richter, John
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 22  July  1769
• Death Date: 1830
• Occupation: reformer
• Occupation: businessman

John Richter, member of the radical London Corresponding Society, was arrested in May 1794 and detained initially in the Tower but later transfered to Newgate, allowing Godwin to visit him. There are also entries for a G and E Richter. A letter in the National Archives from John to the Privy Council (Oct 1794) asks permission for his brother George to visit him thus G Richter has been tentatively identified as George Richter. However, the DNB suggests only that there is a brother Henry James Richter , another brother Thomas and another also called John, although this latter suggestion is odd.

Note that A Goodwin, Friends of Liberty, describes him as a manservant.

Plural Richters in the earlier years at least are taken as indicating both John and Henry James Richter, save during Richter's time in the Tower. On these occasions they are assumed to include H Richter and some other members of the family (uncoded).

• National Archives PC 1/22/37.
• DNB.
• Nancy E. Johnson, 'Fashioning the Legal Subject: Narratives from the London Treason Trials of 1794' in Eighteenth Century Fiction 21.3 (Spring 2009) 413-443.
• Albert Goodwin, The friends of liberty: the English democratic movement in the age of the French Revolution (London: Hutchinson, 1979).

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