Sid W. Richardson

Sid W. Richardson

Sid Williams Richardson (May 25, 1891-September 30, 1959) was a Texas oilman, cattleman, and philanthropist known for his association with the city of Fort Worth.

A native of Athens in east Texas, Richardson attended Baylor University and Simmons College from 1910 to 1912. With borrowed money, he and a business partner, Clint Murchison, amassed $1 million in the oil business in 1919-1920, but then watched their fortunes wane with the oil market, until business again boomed in 1933.

Richardson was president of Sid Richardson Gasoline Co. in Kermit, Sid Richardson Carbon Company in Odessa, and Sid W. Richardson Inc., in Fort Worth, and was a partner in Fort Worth-based Richardson and Bass Oil Producers.

He began ranching in the 1930s and developed a love of Western art, particularly that of Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. He built one of the largest private collections of these artists' work, which opened to the public as the Sid Richardson Collection of Western Art in 1982. After a yearlong renovation, it reopened as the Sid Richardson Museum in 2006.

Richardson had already given numerous scholarships and gifts to local organizations when friend Amon G. Carter persuaded him to establish the Sid W. Richardson Foundation in 1947. The foundation awards grants to Texas organizations in the areas of education, health, human services, and cultural institutions; grants in the latter two categories are restricted to groups in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex area. The foundation's Fort Worth headquarters shares a building with the Richardson Collection of Western Art.

Upon his death in 1959, Richardson, a bachelor, bequeathed a large portion of his estate to his foundation, and left several million dollars to his nephew-partner, Perry Bass. Richardson named John B. Connally, the future Texas governor, as co-executor of the estate, a designation which provided Connally with steady income for years thereafter.

Institutions named for Richardson

* Sid Richardson Museum, a museum in Fort Worth
* Sid Richardson College, one of eleven residential colleges at Rice University, Houston
* The Sid W. Richardson Physical Sciences Building at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth
* Sid Richardson Scout Ranch, a Boy Scout camp on Lake Bridgeport, near Decatur
* Sid Richardson Hall, an academic building at the University of Texas, Austin, which houses the Eugene C. Barker History Center
* Sid Richardson Science Building, Baylor University, Waco
* Sid Richardson Recreation Center, Austin College, Sherman

External links

* [http://www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org/ Sid Richardson Museum]
* [http://www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org/store/ Sid Richardson Museum Store]
* [http://www.sidrichardson.org/ Sid W. Richardson Foundation] ; includes [http://www.sidrichardson.org/Founder.html biography]
* [http://www.sidrmuseum.org/swr.html Biography of Richardson] , from the Sid Richardson Collection of Western Art
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