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Rigby, Rupert Allen Clayton, brother of James Philip Clayton Rigby (q.v.); b. Feb. 19, 1878; adm. Sept. 24, 1891 (A); left July 1894; Edinburgh Univ.; L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. (Edin.); L.F.P.S. (Glasgow) 1904; practised at Nottingham; served in Great War I; temp. Capt. R.A.M.C. Oct. 9, 1916; d. Sept. 1945.

RIGBY, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jul 1729; in school list 1731.

Rigby, James Philip Clayton, elder son of the Rev. Francis William Clayton Rigby, of Newington, by Sarah Elisa, daughter of Anthony Allen, of Preston, Lancs; b. Aug. 21, 1874; adm. Sept. 26, 1889 (H); elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1893 (adm. pensr. Sept. 29, 1893), matric. Michaelmas 1893; called to the bar at Lincolns Inn July 5, 1916; Malayan C.S.; acting deputy registrar, Singapore, Aug. 1898; acting magistrate Larut 1902; acting asst. registrar lpoh 1916; registrar, Kuala-Lumpur, 1920; d. July 29, 1937.

Rigaud, Stephen Jordan; eldest son of Rev.Stephen Peter Rigaud FRS, Radcliffe Observer and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Oxford Univ., and Christian Walker, sister of Gibbes Walker Jordan (qv) ; b. 27 Mar 1816 ; ed. Greenwich and Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 23 Jan 1834 ; 1st cl.Classics and 1st cl.Mathematics 1838 ; BA 1841 ; MA 1842 ; BD and DD 1854 ; Petre Fellow, Exeter Coll. 30 Jun 1838 – Jul 1841, vacated by marriage ; ordained deacon 1840, priest 1841 (both Oxford) ; Tutor, Exeter Coll. 1842-6 ; Assistant Master (Classics) Oct 1846 – Sep 1850, owing appointment to his personal friendship with Henry George Liddell, the School’s new Head Master ; House Master of 1 Little Dean’s Yard ; Domestic Chaplain to Duke of Cambridge 1847 ; applied unsuccessfully for Headmastership of Rugby School 1849 (see Testimonials … in favour of Rev.S.J.Rigaud, 1849) ; Head Master, Queen Elizabeth’s GS, Ipswich Sep 1850 – Dec 1857 ; Select Preacher, Oxford Univ. 1856 ; consecrated Bishop of Antigua 2 Feb 1858 ; editor of Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century, 2 vols, 1841, and author, sermons ; m. 6 Jul 1841 Lucy Frances Sarah, sister of Benjamin Louis Vulliamy (qv) ; d. of yellow fever 17 May 1859. ODNB.

RIDSDALE, GEORGE, eldest son of Capt. William Ridsdale, Lleuar, near Caernarvon, Caernarvonshire, and Mary, dau. of George Twisleton; b. 23 Jan 1721; adm. (aged 10) Jul 1733; KS 1739; left 1743. [perhaps Capt., Army ?]

Ridsdale, Alfred Cyril, son of Alfred Ridsdale, of South Kensington; b. April 14, 1876; adm. Jan. 17, 1889 (H); left April 1892; L.R.I.B.A. 1931; in practice at Chertsey, Surrey; d. May 1943.

RIDOUT, ISAAC; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1725; in school list 1726. [Perhaps Isaac Ridout, St. Martin’s in the Fields, Middlesex, comedian (sic), will PCC 6 Jun 1761, 230; another Isaac Ridout, same parish, gentleman, will proved PCC 3 Aug 1741]

RIDLINGTON, THOMAS, son of Robert Ridlington, Glaston, Rutland, and Rebecca Bainton (IGI); bapt. Glaston, Rutland 5 Mar 1742 (IGI); at school under Markham (Admissions to Trin. Coll. Camb. , iii, 192); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 30 Oct 1759, aged 16, scholar 2 May 1760, matr. 1760. [Parents were married at Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, so father or mother’s father presumably a lawyer]. [note will Thomas Augustus Ridlington, Ramsey, Hunts. , gentleman, proved PCC 7 Oct 1808]

Ridley-Thompson, Aubrey Percy, son of Capt. Thomas Percy Ridley-Thompson and Kathleen, d. of Frederick Swire of Hucclecote, Gloucs.; b. 18 Oct. 1921; adm. Sept. 1935 (H); left July 1939; joined Boots, chemists, 1940; RAC 1942-5 (Capt.), served Middle East and Italy; Capt. City of London Yeomanry (TA) July 1948, Maj. Leics. Yeomanry (TA) Sept. 1955, Lieut.-Col. com­manding Leics. & Derbys. Yeomanry 1961-4; TD 1960; dir. Boots Co. 1968, dir. Public and Customer Relations 1978, retd 1981; DL (Leics.) 1978; OStJ 1984; m. 11 June 1949 Jacqueline, d. of Ronald Peake, of Ashtead, Surrey; d. 9 Oct. 2013.

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.