RIDDALL, GEORGE; b.; adm. 14 Jan 1782.
RICKMAN, WILLIAM CHARLES, only son of John Rickman, Clerk Assistant, House of Commons, and Susanna, dau. of Joseph Postlethwaite, Harting, Sussex; b. 12 Jan 1812; adm. 4 Jul 1825 (Stelfox's); left Dec 1828; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1829; BA 1835; civil engineer; living Empshott, Hampshire, in 1881, income from land and dividends (1881 Census); m. (by 1881) Isabella ---; killed in a carriage accident at Empshott, Hampshire 21 Jun 1886.
RICKETTS, GILBERT TRISTRAM, eldest son of Gilbert Ricketts, Register, Supreme Court of Judicature, Madras, and Harriet Worsley, dau. of Adm. Sir Richard Rodney Bligh KCB, Belle Vue, Southampton; b. 1 May 1800; adm. 16 Jan 1815 (G); left Bartholomewtide 1815; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 4 Mar 1819; BA 1823; MA 1827; ordained deacon 29 Aug 1824, priest 28 Aug 1825 (both Durham); m. Mary ---; d. at Tours, France 25 Apr 1874.
RICKETTS, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM, fourth son of George Crawford Ricketts, Ashford Hall, Ludlow, Shropshire, and Combe, Herefs., barrister, Attorney-Gen., Jamaica, and Frances, dau. of Nicholas Bourke, Speaker, Legislative Assembly, Jamaica; b. 21 Dec 1790 (IGI); adm. 16 Oct 1800; left by May 1803; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Jan 1809, aged 18; adm. Middle Temple 3 Nov 1807, called to bar 27 Nov 1818; Judge of High Court, Madras, from 1825; knighted 23 Mar 1825; d. unm. 15 Jul 1831.
RICKETTS, FREDERICK, brother of Charles Milner Ricketts (qv); b. 10 Nov 1788; at school 1799; in school list 1801, May 1803, Oct 1803; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Oct 1805, aged 16, Canoneer Student 1805-13; BA 1809; MA 1812; ordained deacon 8 Mar 1812 (York), priest 6 Mar 1814 (Chester, lit. dim. from York); Rector of St. James’s, Shaftesbury, Dorset 1818; Rector of Eckington, Derbs., from 1819; m. Mary Anne, dau. of Charles Sturt MP, Crichel, Dorset; d. 28 Mar 1843.
RICKETTS, CHARLES PRENDERGAST, eldest son of Charles Milner Ricketts (qv); b. 31 Jul 1801; adm. 24 Jan 1814; left Bartholomewtide 1816; Ensign and Lieut., 2nd Foot Guards 5 Mar 1818; half-pay 25 Dec 1818; Lieut., 7th Foot 16 Nov 1820; Capt., half-pay, 72nd Foot 24 May 1822; Rifle Brigade 9 Apr 1825; Maj., half-pay, unattached 29 Aug 1826; Lieut-Gov., Sierra Leone; d. unm. in Sierra Leone 13 Nov 1848.
RICKETTS, CHARLES MILNER, second son of George Poyntz Ricketts, Governor of Barbados, and Sophia, dau. of William Watts, EICS Bengal, Governor of Fort William; b. 21 Apr 1776; adm. 3 Apr 1788; KS 1790; Writer, EICS Bengal 1791; arrived in India 25 Jul 1792; Assistant to Resident, Rangpur 2 Nov 1792; Sub-Export Warehouse Keeper 1799; Secretary, Board of Trade, Salt and Opium Dept., 1804; Director, Bank of Bengal 18 Jan 1811; Private Secretary to Governor-Gen. 1813, 1817; Chief Secretary to Government 13 Oct 1815; Member, Supreme Council, and President, Board of Trade, 12 Dec 1817 – 23 Jan 1819, res.; MP Dartmouth 4 Jan 1820 – Mar 1822; FRS 23 Mar 1820; Consul-General, Lima 1827-9; m. 8 Mar 1800 Ellen Theresa, widow of Sackville Marcus Taylor, EICS Bengal, and dau. of Miles Prendergast, co. Galway; d. 7 Sep 1867.
RICKETTS, C. W.; b.; adm.; left 1805. [Perhaps Charles William Spencer Ricketts, son of Thomas Spencer Ricketts, and Anne ---, bapt. St. Luke’s, Chelsea 5 Mar 1788 (IGI)] [Perhaps therefore Charles Spencer Ricketts, of Dorton House, Bucks., who m. 1814 Sophia Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Aubrey (qv); and Charles Spencer Ricketts who was Lieut., Royal Navy 14 Dec 1809, half-pay 1815; living 1861 as JP Buckinghamshire ?] [related to Chetwode family ?]
RICKARDS, WALTER GLENDINNING, son of Rev. Robert Francis Bute Rickards, Vicar of Constantine, Cornwall, and Rachel, youngest dau. of Joseph Heald, Wakefield, Yorks.; b. 2 Mar 1855; adm. 24 Jan 1868 (James'); left May 1870; “cashier at brewery “ (1881 Census, then living at Streatham, Surrey); subsequently in business in Philippines; m.; d. at Manila, Philippines 29 Apr 1908.
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.