RICH, SIR ROBERT, BART., second son of Field Marshal Sir Robert Rich, Bart., MP, and Elizabeth, dau. of Col. Edward Griffith, Private Secretary to Prince George of Denmark and Clerk, Board of Green Cloth; bapt. St. Anne, Soho 19 Dec 1717 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Jul 1727; left 1735; Leyden Univ., adm. 21 Jul 1736; Cornet, 4th Dragoons 1 Feb 1737/8; Lieut. and Capt., 1st Foot Guards 9 Jul 1739; Lieut. -Col., 4th Foot 24 Jun 1744; Col., 22 Aug 1749; Major-Gen., 17 Jan 1758; Lieut. -Gen., 10 Dec 1760; Governor of Londonderry and Colmore Fort 24 Apr 1756-74; served at battles of Falkirk and Culloden, where he was severely wounded; took part in defence of Minorca 1754-6; as an executor of his father’s will he became involved in a lengthy dispute with General Conway over financial responsibility for the accoutrements of the troopers in his father’s former regiment, and was dismissed from the Army and from his Governorship 3 Oct 1774; succ. father as 5th baronet 1 Feb 1768; m. 1st, 31 May 1752 Mary, dau. of Peter Ludlow, Ardsallagh, co. Meath, and sister of Peter Ludlow, 1st Earl Ludlow (I) MP; m. 2nd, 21 Sep 1771 Elizabeth Williams, widow, dau. of Richard Bell, Brampton, Cumberland; d. 19 May 1785. DNB.
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.
RICH, HENRY, brother of Sir Robert Rich, Bart. (qv); bapt. St. Anne, Soho 18 Feb 1725 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) Apr 1734; left 1744; adm. Middle Temple 9 May 1739; d. unm. 12 Aug 1752.
RICH, EDWARD HENRY, 7TH EARL OF WARWICK AND 4TH EARL OF HOLLAND, only son of Edward Rich, 6th Earl of Warwick and 3rd Earl of Holland, and Charlotte, afterwards wife of Right Hon. Joseph Addison PC MP, essayist and statesman, and only dau. of Sir Thomas Middleton, Bart.; b. 20 Jan 1697/8; succ. father as 7th Earl of Warwick and 4th Earl of Holland 31 Jul 1701; at school under Knipe (GEC, Complete Peerage, viii, 69); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Apr 1714, aged 16; a Lord of the Bedchamber to George II as Prince of Wales from Mar 1718; took seat House of Lords 21 Jan 1719; Lord of Bedchamber to George I from 9 May 1719; d. unm. 16 Aug 1721.
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RICH, ---; b.; in school lists 1656.
RICE-TREVOR, GEORGE, 4TH BARON DINEVOR, only son of George Talbot Rice, 3rd Baron Dinevor (qv); b. 5 Aug 1795; adm. 16 Apr 1806; left 1812; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 23 Oct 1812; DCL 1834; LLD Cambridge 1835; MP (Tory/Conservative) Carmarthenshire 1826-31, 1832- 9 Apr 1852; assumed surname of Rice in lieu of De Cardonnel 4 Feb 1817, and the additional surname of Trevor 2 Nov 1824, on succeeding to the estates of the Trevors of Glynde, Sussex; succ. father as 4th Baron Dinevor 9 Apr 1852; ADC to Queen Victoria 24 Apr 1852; provided the railing enclosing the Crimean Memorial; m. 27 Nov 1824 Frances, eldest dau. of Lord Charles Fitzroy MP; d. 7 Oct 1869.
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.