RICE, ---; b.; in school lists Aug 1733 to 1743 (as Thomas Rice in list Dec 1736, not necessarily correctly).
Ricci, Martin John Da Costa, son of John Barnes Da Costa Ricci (q.v.); b. Feb. 6, 1893; adm. May 4, 1906 (G); left Dec. 1910; d. Nov. 6, 1918.
RICCI, JOHN BARNES DA COSTA, son of Baron Anselmo Jose Da Costa Ricci, Portuguese Legation, London, and Anna Russell Barnes (IGI); b. 9 Oct 1866; adm. 21 Apr 1879 (G); left Aug 1882; First Clerk, Secretary’s Department, Bank of England; m. 26 Apr 1892 Lylie Freeman, dau. of Martin Schultz, Philadelphia, USA; d. 5 Feb 1917.
Rhys-Roberts, Thomas Esmor, son of Arthur Rhys-Roberts, official Solicitor of the Supreme Court, and Dilys Elizabeth, d. of Edward John Jones of Mold, Flintshire; b. 22 Apr. 1910; adm. Sept. 1923 (A); left Apr. 1928; RMC Sandhurst (Prize Cadet), 2nd Lieut. East Lancaster Regt Jan. 1930, Lieut. Jan. 1932, RARO 1935; called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) June 1938; Wales and Chester circuit; Princess Louise's Kensington Regt (TA) 1939-45 (Lieut.-Col.), wounded (Italy) 1943, GM (Italy) Feb. 1944 for conspicuous gallantry in unhitching a blazing wagon from an ammunition train; chairman Med. Appeals Tribunal (Wales) 1954, dep. Stipendiary Magistrate Cardiff; QC 1972; m. 9 June 1939 Barbara Ruth, d. of Harold Eccles DLJP, of Balderstone, Lancs; d. 6 June 1975.
RHODES, SAMUEL; b. c. 1645; adm. 13 Apr 1656; a boarder (Busby’s Account Book); d. c. 1728. [Whitmore]
RHODES, RICHARD, son of Benjamin Rhodes, St. James, Clerkenwell, London, and Maulden, Beds., Steward to Earls of Elgin, and Anne Glover, St. James, Clerkenwell, gentlewoman to Countess of Elgin; bapt. St. James Clerkenwell 27 Dec 1640 (IGI); adm. 17 Sep 1655; a boarder; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1658, matr. 31 Jul 1658, aged 18, Westminster Student; BA 22 Mar 1661/2; Montpelier Univ. (degree in medicine); travelled in Spain; described by Wood as “a confident Westmonasterian, a violinist to hold between his knees” (Ath. Oxon., i, xxxv); his play, Flora’s Vagaries, published in 1670, was acted by the Students of Christ Church 8 Jan 1663/4 (Thompson, Christ Church, 95-6), and afterwards in London, where the part of Flora was taken by Nell Gwyn; m.; d. at Madrid 1668. DNB.
Rhodes, Nicholas Gervase, son of Alfred Henry Brian Rhodes MB ChB MRCGP, gen. med. practitioner, and Ruth, d. of Wilfred Whiteley, mill owner and engineer, of Elland, Yorks; b. 26 May 1946; adm. Sept. 1959 (QS); left July 1964; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1964, BA 1967, MA 1977; an actuary, FIA 1973; Legal & General Assurance Soc. 1967-76; Victory Reinsurance Co. 1976-89; NRG Victory Reinsurance Co. 1989-94; Chief Actuary, GE Frankona Reassurance 1994-2002; hon. treas. Roy. Numismatic Soc. 1973-2002, hon. Fellow 2002; sec. -gen. Oriental Numismatic Soc. 1997-; the leading authority of his generation on the coinages of the Himalayan region; joint author, The Coinage of Nepal 1989, and joint author of similar monographs on the coinages of Assam, Cooch Behar, Tripura and other Indian states; m. 17 Aug. 1970 Deki Tsering, d. of Maj. Wangchuck Dorji Laden-La of Darjeeling, India; d. 6 July 2011.