Richard Anderton was born in Preston, Lancashire, England on 10 September 1890 and was articled to E. J. Andrew in Preston from 1906 to 1911. He also attended the School of Town Planning in Hampstead Garden Suburb and trained with Farrow & Fletcher in 1912. He worked as an assistant to Edward Garside in 1912.
Anderton qualified as an architect in 1914. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1914 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1939. He was also a member of the Blackpool and Fylde Architectural Society and its President in the late 1930s. Anderton exhibited a design for a bungalow in Kenya, British East Africa at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1932.
His address was given as Breeze Hill, Cadley, Preston, Lancashire in 1914; 6, Kenilworth Gardens, Blackpool, Lancashire in 1926 and 1942; and 18, Wlnckley Street, Preston 1923 and 1926. He died on 28 September 1942.
Residences at Blackpool (1921-22)l; business premises for. S. Kameya and Son, Blackpool; (1922) country houses near Preston (1923); fourteen residences on the Cardwell Estate, Blackpool; shop for E. H. Booth and Co., Ltd., St. Annes-on-Sea; Rendezvous Cinema Blackpool; café and shops for E. H. Booth and Co., Ltd., at Blackpool; terrace of six boarding houses at the North Shore, Blackpool; residence at Littleborough, near Rochdale; block of five shops, South Shore, Blackpool
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001