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RICHARDS, CHARLES, brother of Richard Richards (KS 1802, qv); b. 13 Apr 1800; adm. Mich. 1814; Min. Can. 1815; left Dec 1816; Junior Clerk, Board of Control 1822 (still 1830); Private Secretary to Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn (adm. 1784, qv), when Secretary of State for War in 1830-1; d. 29 May 1840.

RICHARDS, ALFRED BATE, eldest son of John Richards MP, Wassell Grove, Hagley, Worcs., and Frances Smith; b. 17 Feb 1820; at Charterhouse Sch. 1829-30; adm. 18 Jan 1831 (Stelfox's); at Harrow Sch. 1832; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 19 Oct 1837; BA 1841; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 16 May 1839, called to bar 20 Nov 1845; author of an anonymous pamphlet, Oxford Unmasked, 1841, which rapidly passed through five editions; edited The British Army Despatch 1848-50, and The Mirror of the Time, a weekly founded 3 Aug 1850 which only lasted a year; one of chief promoters of volunteer movement of 1859 and became Col., 3rd City of London Rifle Corps; editor, The Morning Advertizer, from 1870; author of a number of plays and poems, and of the novel So Very Human, 1871; m. 15 Feb 1849 Emma Camilla Angela Maria, only dau. of Camillo Gaggiotti, Minister of War at Rome; d. 12 Jun 1876. DNB.

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RICH, WILLIAM GORDON, brother of John Rich (qv); b. 28 Feb 1829; adm. 8 Jun 1841 (Benthall's); QS (Capt. ) 1843; Capt. of the School 1846; rowed v. Eton 29 Jul 1845, 30 Jul 1846; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 May 1847, Westminster Student 1847-55; won University pairs with Arthur Milman (qv) 1847; rowed in Christ Church eight which was Head of the River 1847-9 and in Oxford eight which won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley 1848, 1850, 1851; rowed stroke for Oxford in the two races against Cambridge 1851; President, Oxford University Boat Club 1849-51; BA 1851; a sheep farmer in New Zealand; m. 21 Feb 1856 Maria Stuart, dau. of Joseph Maitland; d. at Christchurch, New Zealand 6 Jul 1912.

RICH, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 16) Oct 1716.

RICH, ROBERT; b.; adm. 23 Oct 1800; in school list 1801.

RICH, SIR ROBERT, BART., second son of Field Marshal Sir Robert Rich, Bart., MP, and Elizabeth, dau. of Col. Edward Griffith, Private Secretary to Prince George of Denmark and Clerk, Board of Green Cloth; bapt. St. Anne, Soho 19 Dec 1717 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Jul 1727; left 1735; Leyden Univ., adm. 21 Jul 1736; Cornet, 4th Dragoons 1 Feb 1737/8; Lieut. and Capt., 1st Foot Guards 9 Jul 1739; Lieut. -Col., 4th Foot 24 Jun 1744; Col., 22 Aug 1749; Major-Gen., 17 Jan 1758; Lieut. -Gen., 10 Dec 1760; Governor of Londonderry and Colmore Fort 24 Apr 1756-74; served at battles of Falkirk and Culloden, where he was severely wounded; took part in defence of Minorca 1754-6; as an executor of his father’s will he became involved in a lengthy dispute with General Conway over financial responsibility for the accoutrements of the troopers in his father’s former regiment, and was dismissed from the Army and from his Governorship 3 Oct 1774; succ. father as 5th baronet 1 Feb 1768; m. 1st, 31 May 1752 Mary, dau. of Peter Ludlow, Ardsallagh, co. Meath, and sister of Peter Ludlow, 1st Earl Ludlow (I) MP; m. 2nd, 21 Sep 1771 Elizabeth Williams, widow, dau. of Richard Bell, Brampton, Cumberland; d. 19 May 1785. DNB.

Rich, Robert Dawson, brother of John Edmund Rich (qv); b. 21 Nov. 1919; adm. Sept. 1933 (G); left July 1938; Registrar Mary Ward Settlement 1952-75; a lecturer and adult literacy organiser, reta 1985; chairman Internat. Fedn of Pipers' Guilds 1981-6; d. 2007.