RICHARDS, EDWARD, elder son of William Richards (at school under Wilson, qv); b.; adm. 18 Feb 1656/7; KS (aged 14) 1660; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1663, adm. pens. 4 Jul 1663, scholar 1664, matr. 1663; migr. to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Jul 1664, Canoneer Student 7 Jul 1664 – void 1666; adm. Middle Temple 20 May 1663; inherited father’s landed property at Georgeham and Barnstaple, Devon.

RICHARDS, EDWARD VAUGHAN, eldest son of William Parry Richards (qv); b. 18 Nov 1821; adm. 27 Jun 1834 (Benthall's); KS 1836; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1840, matr, 3 Jun 1840, Westminster Student; rowed v. Cambridge 1841; BA 1844; MA 1846; adm. Inner Temple 10 Jan 1844, called to bar 30 Apr 1847, Bencher 26 Apr 1868; Oxford Circuit; QC 21 Feb 1868; m. 30 Oct 1866 Elizabeth Anne, dau. of Robert Wharton, barrister; d. 26 Sep 1884.

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.

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, 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.

RICH, JOHN, eldest son of Rev. John Bostock Rich (formerly Bostock), Rector of Newtimber, Sussex, and Georgiana, dau. of Charles Gordon; b. 24 May 1826; adm. 16 Jun 1838 (Benthall's); QS (Capt. ) 1840; Capt. of the School 1843; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1844, matr. 31 May 1844, Westminster Student 1844-62; BA 1848; MA 1851; ordained deacon (Oxford) 1851, priest (Chichester) 1856; Curate, Newtimber, Sussex 1856-61; Vicar of Chippenham, Wilts., 1861-1904; Hon. Canon, Bristol 1882; Rector of Tytherton Kelways, Wilts., from 1884; m. 5 Feb 1861 Clara Sophia, dau. of Thomas Holmes Bosworth, Westerham, Kent; d. 18 Mar 1913.

Rich, John Edmund, son of Edmund Milton Rich CBE FRSA, Education Officer LCC, of Beckenham, Kent, and Louisa Anne Rich JP, d. of Augustus Grone, shipping merchant, of Dunlaoghaire, Eire; b. 9 Oct. 1912; adm. Sept. 1926 (KS); left July 1931; Magd. Coll. Camb., matric. 193I, BA 1935, MA 1939; man. trainee LNER 1935-9; joined BBC 1939; RE 1940-6 (Lieut.-Col.); organiser BBC TV Children's Programme 1952-63, Family Programme 1963-5, Further Education 1965-72, retd 1972; MBE 1963; consult. BBC Enterprises 1972-6; admin. officer Internat. Broadcasting Inst. and Internat. Inst. of Communications 1976-8; m. 25 Sept. 1963 Judith Barbara Shephard, d. of Maurice Owen Willmore, HM Newport GS, Essex; 29 Nov. 2000.

Rice-Stringer, Peter Gerald Fitzgerald, son of Harold James Rice-Stringer, mining engineer, and Helen Josephine, d. of Herbert Bayley Mack of Liverpool; b. 26 Oct. 1916; adm. Apr. 1931 (R); left July 1935; trooper Life Guards 1939, RASC 1940-5 (Maj.), despatches (twice), Polish Cross of Valour; a racehorse trainer; d. 27 June 1984.

Rice-Oxley, Leonard, brother of Alfred Esmond Rice-Oxley (q.v.); b. Sept. 8, 1892; adm. Sept. 27, 1906 (A); left (with Triplett) July 1911; Keble Coll. Oxon. (scholar 1911), matric. Michaelmas 1911; Stanhope Univ. Prize 1914; B.A. 1915; M.A. 1919; Tutor of Keble since 1921; served in Great War I; Lieut. 18th Batt. London Regt. . July 22, 1917; Capt.; Lecturer in Modern History, Army School of Education, Oxford; author of Oxford Renowned (1925), and other works, Fellow of Keble Coll. Oxford 1930; Sub-Warden 1954; m. Jan. 10, 1946, Eileen, elder daughter of Montague Wakefield Taylor, of London; d. July 9, 1960.

Rice-Oxley, Alfred Esmond, third son of Sir Alfred James Rice-Oxley, M.D., of Kensington, by Eva Augusta, daughter of Charles Edwards Amos, C.E., of Clapham Common; b. Dec. 8, 1888; adm. Sept. 24, 1903 (A); left Easter 1908; served in France in Great War I; Lieut. Kent Cyclist Batt. July 1, 1917; invalided owing to shell-shock near Cambrai Sept. 1918; m. June 26, 1915, Constance, only daughter of Spencer Leigh Hughes, M.P., of Kensington; d. . June 30, 1955.