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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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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.