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, 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.

RIDLEY, SIR MATTHEW WHITE, BART., eldest son of Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart. (b. 1778, qv); b. 9 Sep 1809; adm. 26 Jan 1821 (G); left Whitsun 1824; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 Jun 1825; BA 1828; succ. as 4th baronet 14 Jul 1836; partner, Old Bank, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1836-9; MP North Northumberland (Cons) 1859-68; DL JP Northumberland, High Sheriff 1841; member, Society of Dilettanti 1863; m. 21 Sep 1841 Hon. Cecilia Anne Parke, dau. of James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale PC, Baron, Court of Exchequer; d. 25 Sep 1877.

RIDLEY, CHARLES WILLIAM, son of Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart. (b. 1778, qv); b. 26 Jan 1812; adm. 11 Apr 1825 (G); Ensign and Lieut., 1st Foot Guards 21 Feb 1828; Lieut, and Capt., 14 Jun 1831; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 14 Jul 1843; Maj., 19 Oct 1854; Brevet Col., 20 Jun 1854; Col., 11 Jan 1858; Major-Gen., 13 Feb 1859; Col., 53rd Foot 2 Apr 1865; served in Crimean War; CB 2 Jan 1857; m. 17 Apr 1845 Hon. Henrietta Araminta Monck Browne, dau. of Dominick Browne, 1st Baron Oranmore and Browne (I); d. 1 Feb 1867.

RIDGE, THOMAS, son of Humphrey Ridge, Kilmeston, Hampshire, and Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Richard Bentley DD, Master of Trinity Coll. Cambridge; b.; adm. (aged 14) Feb 1750/1 (Grant's) (see trial of John Ward for theft, Old Bailey Records Feb 1754); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 30 May 1754, aged 17, scholar 18 Apr 1755, matr. 1755; BA 1758; MA 1761; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1759, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1761; of Kilmeston, Hampshire; m. 17 Apr 1767 (IGI) his cousin Mary, dau. of John Ridge, Portsea, Hampshire; d. 3 Feb 1801.

RICKETTS, GILBERT TRISTRAM, eldest son of Gilbert Ricketts, Register, Supreme Court of Judicature, Madras, and Harriet Worsley, dau. of Adm. Sir Richard Rodney Bligh KCB, Belle Vue, Southampton; b. 1 May 1800; adm. 16 Jan 1815 (G); left Bartholomewtide 1815; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 4 Mar 1819; BA 1823; MA 1827; ordained deacon 29 Aug 1824, priest 28 Aug 1825 (both Durham); m. Mary ---; d. at Tours, France 25 Apr 1874.

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.

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.

Richmond-Watson, Euan Owens, brother of Richmond Noel Richmond-Watson (qv); b. 1 Apr. 1917; adm. Jan. 1931 (G); left July 1935; Merton Coll. Oxf., matric. 1935; assumed additional surname Richmond; RAFVR 1940-5 (Wing Cdr); farmed in Sussex; m. 25 Nov. 1939 Hon. Gladys Gordon, d. of Thomas Siveright, 1st Baron Catto PC CBE; d. in Toronto 15 Apr. 1954.