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RICKETTS, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM, fourth son of George Crawford Ricketts, Ashford Hall, Ludlow, Shropshire, and Combe, Herefs., barrister, Attorney-Gen., Jamaica, and Frances, dau. of Nicholas Bourke, Speaker, Legislative Assembly, Jamaica; b. 21 Dec 1790 (IGI); adm. 16 Oct 1800; left by May 1803; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Jan 1809, aged 18; adm. Middle Temple 3 Nov 1807, called to bar 27 Nov 1818; Judge of High Court, Madras, from 1825; knighted 23 Mar 1825; d. unm. 15 Jul 1831.

RICKETTS, FREDERICK, brother of Charles Milner Ricketts (qv); b. 10 Nov 1788; at school 1799; in school list 1801, May 1803, Oct 1803; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Oct 1805, aged 16, Canoneer Student 1805-13; BA 1809; MA 1812; ordained deacon 8 Mar 1812 (York), priest 6 Mar 1814 (Chester, lit. dim. from York); Rector of St. James’s, Shaftesbury, Dorset 1818; Rector of Eckington, Derbs., from 1819; m. Mary Anne, dau. of Charles Sturt MP, Crichel, Dorset; d. 28 Mar 1843.

RICKETTS, CHARLES PRENDERGAST, eldest son of Charles Milner Ricketts (qv); b. 31 Jul 1801; adm. 24 Jan 1814; left Bartholomewtide 1816; Ensign and Lieut., 2nd Foot Guards 5 Mar 1818; half-pay 25 Dec 1818; Lieut., 7th Foot 16 Nov 1820; Capt., half-pay, 72nd Foot 24 May 1822; Rifle Brigade 9 Apr 1825; Maj., half-pay, unattached 29 Aug 1826; Lieut-Gov., Sierra Leone; d. unm. in Sierra Leone 13 Nov 1848.

RICKETTS, CHARLES MILNER, second son of George Poyntz Ricketts, Governor of Barbados, and Sophia, dau. of William Watts, EICS Bengal, Governor of Fort William; b. 21 Apr 1776; adm. 3 Apr 1788; KS 1790; Writer, EICS Bengal 1791; arrived in India 25 Jul 1792; Assistant to Resident, Rangpur 2 Nov 1792; Sub-Export Warehouse Keeper 1799; Secretary, Board of Trade, Salt and Opium Dept., 1804; Director, Bank of Bengal 18 Jan 1811; Private Secretary to Governor-Gen. 1813, 1817; Chief Secretary to Government 13 Oct 1815; Member, Supreme Council, and President, Board of Trade, 12 Dec 1817 – 23 Jan 1819, res.; MP Dartmouth 4 Jan 1820 – Mar 1822; FRS 23 Mar 1820; Consul-General, Lima 1827-9; m. 8 Mar 1800 Ellen Theresa, widow of Sackville Marcus Taylor, EICS Bengal, and dau. of Miles Prendergast, co. Galway; d. 7 Sep 1867.

RICKETTS, C. W.; b.; adm.; left 1805. [Perhaps Charles William Spencer Ricketts, son of Thomas Spencer Ricketts, and Anne ---, bapt. St. Luke’s, Chelsea 5 Mar 1788 (IGI)] [Perhaps therefore Charles Spencer Ricketts, of Dorton House, Bucks., who m. 1814 Sophia Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Aubrey (qv); and Charles Spencer Ricketts who was Lieut., Royal Navy 14 Dec 1809, half-pay 1815; living 1861 as JP Buckinghamshire ?] [related to Chetwode family ?]

RICKARDS, WALTER GLENDINNING, son of Rev. Robert Francis Bute Rickards, Vicar of Constantine, Cornwall, and Rachel, youngest dau. of Joseph Heald, Wakefield, Yorks.; b. 2 Mar 1855; adm. 24 Jan 1868 (James'); left May 1870; “cashier at brewery “ (1881 Census, then living at Streatham, Surrey); subsequently in business in Philippines; m.; d. at Manila, Philippines 29 Apr 1908.

RICKARDS, SIR GEORGE KETILBY, eldest son of George Rickards, Send Grove, Surrey, and Frances, second dau. of Rev. Samuel Ketilby DD, Vicar of Sutton, Beds.; b. 24 Jan 1812; adm. 10 Jul 1823 (G); left 1824; went to Eton Coll.; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 6 Apr 1829; migr. to Trinity Coll. Oxford, scholar 1829; Newdigate Prize for English Verse 1830; BA 1833; MA 1836; Fellow, Queen’s Coll. Oxford 1836-43; Drummond Professor of Political Economy, Oxford Univ. 1852-7; adm. Inner Temple 14 Nov 1831, called to bar 9 Jun 1837, Bencher 27 May 1873; Counsel to Speaker of House of Commons 1851-82; KCB 24 Jun 1882; JP Oxfordshire 1881; translated into blank verse some of the books of Virgil’s Aeneid, 1871-2; author, The Financial Policy of War, 1855, and other works; m. 1st, 16 Aug 1842 Frances Phoebe, second dau. of John Henry George Lefroy (qv); m. 2nd, 1861 Julia Cassandra, second dau. of Rev. Benjamin Lefroy, Rector of Ashe, Hampshire; d. 23 Sep 1889. DNB.

Richter, Thomas Frederick, son of Karl Richter LDS, of Hampstead, and Hermine Josefine, d. of Franz Berka of Vienna, Australia; b. 6 Oct. 1937; adm. Sept. 1951 (W), HS Sept. 1952; left Dec. 1955; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1958, BA 1962, MA 1968; S. G. Warburg & Co. 1961-8; merchant banking; dir. Kethrid Investments Ltd., T. F. Richter & Co. Ltd; d. 12 Sept. 2014.

Richmond-Watson, Richmond Noel, son of Richmond Watson of Chalfont St Giles, Bucks, and Gwendolen Llewellyn Aves, d. of Rev. Frederick William Davis, Rector of St Catherine's Blairgowrie, Perthshire; b. 25 Dec. 1907; adm. Jan. 1922 (G); left Apr. 1925; Univ. of Lausanne; assumed additional surname Richmond; Roy. Bucks Hussars (TA) 1939-45 (Capt.), served France and Burma; a farmer, landowner, stud and racehorse owner in Northants; a Steward of the Jockey Club 1972-9; m. 1st 3 Dec. 1930 Joanne Essex, d. of William Lowndes MBE, of Chesham, Bucks; 2nd July 1946 Arabella Jean, d. of George Howard Coxon of Brockham Green, Surrey; d. 2002.

Richmond-Watson, George Frederick, brother of Richmond Noel Richmond-Watson (qv); b. 25 Oct. 1910; adm. Sept. 1924 (G); left Dec. 1927; assumed additional surname Richmond; Warwickshire Yeomanry in WW2 (Capt.); farming in Oxfordshire; m. 1st 15 July 1937 Barbara Mary, d. of Stanley John Benham of Arundel, Sussex; 2nd 28 Sept. 1960 Jean, d. of Brig. Philip St Barbe Sydenham; d. 17 Jan. 1992.