Richard Richmond, Bishop of Sodor and Man in the 1770s, and the least liked of the eighteenth-century bishops.

A. W. Moore, who had little to say against most of them, calls him a haughty and overbearing man, much disliked by his clergy. He was installed about 1772, the last bishop to be installed in the old chancel of the ancient church, which went completely to ruin afterwards, unroofed and stripped of its door and windows.

He changed the way the tithes were gathered. Until he came they had been let to the clergy of the respective parishes. Under the new method they were let to the highest bidder at public auction, and the buyer then held sub-auctions to re-let them, so that they sold for a good deal more than their value, and the proctors who had done the work before lost their fees.

He fought the Methodists and lost. In July 1776 he issued a pastoral letter to his clergy against several unordained, unauthorised and unqualified persons from other countries who had for some time past presumed to preach and teach publicly in the Island. Moore describes the letter as intolerant and violent. After Richmond's time the Church and the Methodists on the Island worked together on the whole amicably, and went on doing so long after the two had fallen out in England.

He quarrelled with Philip Moore as well. When John Kelly, the ablest of Philip Moore's pupils and afterwards a translator of the Manx scriptures, came to be ordained, either the Bishop would not ordain him or his master would not let him seek ordination from that Bishop. Kelly went to Carlisle for his orders instead.

Not all his business was contentious. He undertook the charge of distributing what remained of the Manx Bibles and prayer books, and lists of the books left in the clergy's hands were to be delivered to him. In December 1779 John Quayle, Clerk of the Rolls, wrote to him about the Island's contribution to the general defence, referring to the Lieutenant-Governor's requisitions to his Lordship, or to his commissioners in his absence.