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Rigby, James Philip Clayton, elder son of the Rev. Francis William Clayton Rigby, of Newington, by Sarah Elisa, daughter of Anthony Allen, of Preston, Lancs; b. Aug. 21, 1874; adm. Sept. 26, 1889 (H); elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1893 (adm. pensr. Sept. 29, 1893), matric. Michaelmas 1893; called to the bar at Lincolns Inn July 5, 1916; Malayan C.S.; acting deputy registrar, Singapore, Aug. 1898; acting magistrate Larut 1902; acting asst. registrar lpoh 1916; registrar, Kuala-Lumpur, 1920; d. July 29, 1937.

The earliest years of Rigaud’s are unclear, but we know it began as an independent boarding house in the late 18th century, changing its name several times until it became Rigaud’s, after the Reverend Stephen Rigaud, a master at Westminster from 1846-1850, who later became Bishop of Antigua.

In 1821, when the house was named ‘Mother Best’s’, a boarder died from over-eating after a ‘broshier’, or an attempt to exhaust the supply of food in protest at its quality.

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.