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Blessed Richard Simpson (or Sympson) (c. 1553 – 24 July 1588) was an English priest martyred in the reign of Elizabeth I. He was born in Well in Yorkshire. Little is known of his early life but according to Challoner’s Memoirs of Missionary Priests he became an Anglican priest but later converted to Catholicism. He was imprisoned in York as a Catholic recusant; on being released he went to Douai College where he was admitted on 19 May 1577.