The life of Andrew Richmond at first appears somewhat problematic. His death in a Glasgow Hospital is recorded in January 1967, as is his address at the time close to Craigton Cemetery, where he would be buried. His parents too are shown, his father, James, a grocer, and his mother Catherine nee Turnbull. He is a retired paint salesman. And his age at death is given, at what looks like eighty-eight, which makes him born in 1879, in fact in January of that year, his passing just seventeen days after his birthday. The difficulty is that no-one of that name and description was born that year.

In fact the explanation is simple. The death-certificate is wrong in that the age of Richmond's passing has been badly entered and subsequently misread. It was actually eighty-five, so the year of birth becomes 1882, the parents then fit, his father from Muirkirk in Ayrshire, his mother from Glasgow and the place of birth becomes Erskine, although Andrew would actually be raised in Glasgow, in Pollokshields, by nineteen working as a clerk.

And by then he had already joined the relatively local Queen's Park. Indeed he seems to have done so in his mid to late-teens, played in the third team before taking himself off to Parkhead and there at full-back in 1903 be in the team that would win the Junior Cup, he being twice capped at that level. 

Thus aged twenty-one he found himself beginning to figure on the radar professional teams. Yet showed little interest, choosing instead to remain amateur and returning to Hampden Park, where with a pass and a tackle he stayed for the rest of the decade, in 1906 picking up a single senior cap, and probably already working as a paint salesman (his elder brother the manager of a paint works). Certainly, he was recorded as such in 1911, although in 1910 he had turned professional, with Rangers and at the age already of twenty-nine.

His time at the Ibrox club would encompass two seasons. And, whilst they were never with a guaranteed first-team place, it was not without success. As a member of the first team squad he would win two League championships, before in 1912 stepping back from the senior game entirely. 

In The Great War Richmond would serve in the army but did so having in 1916 from barracks in Maryhill married, his bride Letitia Delaney, the wedding in Baillieston. And the couple would seem to have at least three children, three sons but there would then be a series of tragedies. The first was that Letitia would die in 1929. She was just forty. The second and third were that in the Second World War two of their boys would be killed in action with Andrew himself, a widower still, outliving firts his boys by half a century and his wife by almost four decades.