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.
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