Rigaud, Stephen Jordan; eldest son of Rev.Stephen Peter Rigaud FRS, Radcliffe Observer and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Oxford Univ., and Christian Walker, sister of Gibbes Walker Jordan (qv) ; b. 27 Mar 1816 ; ed. Greenwich and Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 23 Jan 1834 ; 1st cl.Classics and 1st cl.Mathematics 1838 ; BA 1841 ; MA 1842 ; BD and DD 1854 ; Petre Fellow, Exeter Coll. 30 Jun 1838 – Jul 1841, vacated by marriage ; ordained deacon 1840, priest 1841 (both Oxford) ; Tutor, Exeter Coll. 1842-6 ; Assistant Master (Classics) Oct 1846 – Sep 1850, owing appointment to his personal friendship with Henry George Liddell, the School’s new Head Master ; House Master of 1 Little Dean’s Yard ; Domestic Chaplain to Duke of Cambridge 1847 ; applied unsuccessfully for Headmastership of Rugby School 1849 (see Testimonials … in favour of Rev.S.J.Rigaud, 1849) ; Head Master, Queen Elizabeth’s GS, Ipswich Sep 1850 – Dec 1857 ; Select Preacher, Oxford Univ. 1856 ; consecrated Bishop of Antigua 2 Feb 1858 ; editor of Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century, 2 vols, 1841, and author, sermons ; m. 6 Jul 1841 Lucy Frances Sarah, sister of Benjamin Louis Vulliamy (qv) ; d. of yellow fever 17 May 1859. ODNB.
RIDSDALE, GEORGE, eldest son of Capt. William Ridsdale, Lleuar, near Caernarvon, Caernarvonshire, and Mary, dau. of George Twisleton; b. 23 Jan 1721; adm. (aged 10) Jul 1733; KS 1739; left 1743. [perhaps Capt., Army ?]
Ridsdale, Alfred Cyril, son of Alfred Ridsdale, of South Kensington; b. April 14, 1876; adm. Jan. 17, 1889 (H); left April 1892; L.R.I.B.A. 1931; in practice at Chertsey, Surrey; d. May 1943.
RIDOUT, ISAAC; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1725; in school list 1726. [Perhaps Isaac Ridout, St. Martin’s in the Fields, Middlesex, comedian (sic), will PCC 6 Jun 1761, 230; another Isaac Ridout, same parish, gentleman, will proved PCC 3 Aug 1741]
RIDLINGTON, THOMAS, son of Robert Ridlington, Glaston, Rutland, and Rebecca Bainton (IGI); bapt. Glaston, Rutland 5 Mar 1742 (IGI); at school under Markham (Admissions to Trin. Coll. Camb. , iii, 192); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 30 Oct 1759, aged 16, scholar 2 May 1760, matr. 1760. [Parents were married at Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, so father or mother’s father presumably a lawyer]. [note will Thomas Augustus Ridlington, Ramsey, Hunts. , gentleman, proved PCC 7 Oct 1808]
Ridley-Thompson, Aubrey Percy, son of Capt. Thomas Percy Ridley-Thompson and Kathleen, d. of Frederick Swire of Hucclecote, Gloucs.; b. 18 Oct. 1921; adm. Sept. 1935 (H); left July 1939; joined Boots, chemists, 1940; RAC 1942-5 (Capt.), served Middle East and Italy; Capt. City of London Yeomanry (TA) July 1948, Maj. Leics. Yeomanry (TA) Sept. 1955, Lieut.-Col. commanding Leics. & Derbys. Yeomanry 1961-4; TD 1960; dir. Boots Co. 1968, dir. Public and Customer Relations 1978, retd 1981; DL (Leics.) 1978; OStJ 1984; m. 11 June 1949 Jacqueline, d. of Ronald Peake, of Ashtead, Surrey; d. 9 Oct. 2013.
RIDLEY-COLBORNE, HON. WILLIAM NICHOLAS, only son of Nicholas William Ridley-Colborne, 1st Baron Colborne (qv); b. 24 Jul 1814; adm. 18 Jun 1827 (G); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 7 Jun 1832; BA 1836; MP (Whig) Richmond from 1841; d. unm. 23 Mar 1846.
RIDLEY-COLBORNE, NICHOLAS WILLIAM, 1ST BARON COLBORNE, brother of Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart. (b. 1778, qv) ; b. 14 Apr 1779 ; in sixth form list 1796 ; probably the Ridley who played cricket v. Eton on Hounslow Heath 25 Jul 1796 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Oct 1796 ; BA 1800 ; adm. Gray’s Inn 12 Dec 1795, withdrew from Inn 26 Apr 1809 without having been called to bar ; assumed additional surname and arms of Colborne 21 Jun 1803 ; MP Bletchingley 8 May 1805-6, Malmesbury 1806-7, Appleby 20 Jul 1807 – 1812, Thetford 1818-26, Horsham 8 Feb 1827-32, Wells 5 May 1834-7 ; created Baron Colborne 15 May 1839 ; a loyal supporter of the Whig party in House of Commons and House of Lords ; member, Fine Arts Commission 1841, Metropolitan Improvements Commission 1842 ; Busby Trustee 13 May 1851 ; m. 14 Jun 1808 Charlotte, eldest dau. of Thomas Steele (qv) ; d. 3 May 1854.
RIDLEY, RICHARD, fourth son of Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart. (b. 1745, qv); b. 28 Aug 1782; adm. Oct 1796; in school list 1797; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Oct 1799; BA 1803; MA 1806; ordained deacon 6 Oct 1805, priest 5 Oct 1806 (both York); Perpetual Curate of Cramlington, Northumberland Dec 1806; Rector of Leathley, Yorks., from 1826; m. 8 Nov 1810 Catherine Lucy, only dau. of Rev. Richard Poplewell Johnson, Ashton upon Mersey, Cheshire; d. 21 Jan 1845.
RIDLEY, RICHARD, son of Matthew Ridley (qv), and his first wife; b. 5 Jul 1736; adm. Mar 1747/8 (Grant's); left 1751; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 18 Dec 1751; Capt., 23rd Foot 3 Sep 1756; Maj., 107th Foot 18 Oct 1761; half-pay 1763; travelling in Italy 1764-5; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 25 May 1772; d. 14 May 1789.