RAVIS, THOMAS, son of Thomas Ravis, Malden, Surrey, and Mary, widow of Robert Benson, Kingston on Thames, Surrey, and Knaresborough, Yorks., and dau. of Thomas De Lisle, Reigate, Surrey; b. c. 1560; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 6 Jul 1575, Westminster Student to 1591; Ravis and Edward Carew (qv) were at first refused admittance to their Studentships, but were ultimately admitted after an appeal to Lord Burghley; BA 1578; MA 3 Mar 1581/2; BD 1589; DD 1595; Proctor 1588; ordained 1582; Vicar of All Hallows, Barking, London 27 Dec 1591 – May 1598; Prebendary of Westminster 2 Feb 1592/3-1607; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford 1596 – 1604/5 (the first OW to hold that preferment); Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Univ. 1596-8; Vicar of Islip, Oxfordshire 7 Jul 1598; Vicar of Wittenham Abbas, Berks., Oct 1598; attended Hampton Court Conference 1604; one of Oxford Committee deputed to translate part of New Testament; consecrated Bishop of Gloucester 17 Mar 1604/5; translated to London 18 May 1607; a determined opponent of nonconformity; m. Alice, sister of Rev. Robert Tinley DD (subsequently wife of Sir John Borlase, Kt, Master of the Ordnance); d. 14 Dec 1609. DNB.
RATFORD (or RADFORD), JOSEPH, son of Robert Ratford (or Radford), Stepney, Middlesex, and Anne ---; bapt. St. Dunstan, Stepney 3 Jun 1655 (IGI); adm.; KS 1671; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. pens. 4 Jun 1674 (as Radford), aged 17.
RASHLEIGH, NATHANIEL; b.; adm.; KS 1663; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1667, adm. pens. 29 Jun 1667, scholar 1668; BA 1670/1; MA 1674; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1674-1706, Senior Fellow from 1706, Tutor 1680, Junior Dean 1700-1, Junior Bursar 1704-6; ordained; Rector of Papworth St. Andrew, Cambs., 1693; one of petitioners to Bishop of Ely against Richard Bentley in 1709; d. 6 May 1713.
RAPHSON, JOHN; b.; adm.; KS 1701; left 1704.
RANSOM, ROBERT JOHN, only son of Robert Ransom, Hastings, Sussex; b. 27 Aug 1857; adm. 31 Jul 1871; QS 1872; left Dec 1874; St. Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 11 Nov 1878; BA 1883; Wycliffe Hall 1883; ordained deacon 1883 (Truro), priest 1884 (Winchester); Curate, St. Stephen’s in Brannell, Cornwall 1883-4, St. Michael’s, Bournemouth, Hampshire 1884-5, Stoke-next-Guildford, Surrey 1885-90; m. 9 Feb 1886 Edith, dau. of Robert Chatfield Hankinson, North Stoneham, Hampshire, banker; d. 30 Oct 1902.
RANKEN, CHARLES, second son of Capt. Charles Ranken, EICS Bengal, subsequently of Richmond Lodge, near Holywood, Belfast, Ireland, and Mary, dau. of Rev. Moses Grant, Rector of Nolton, Pembrokeshire, and Prebendary of St. Davids; b. 14 Mar 1797; adm. Christmas 1809; KS (aged 13) 1810; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1814, matr. 23 May 1814, Westminster Student; BA 1817; MA 1820 (incorp. Cambridge 1860); ordained deacon 1820, priest 1821 (both Oxford); Curate, Brislington, Somerset, Lecturer there 1826; Chaplain, Hickey’s Almshouses, Richmond, Surrey 1867-77; m. Isabella, dau. of Edward Long Fox MD, Brislington House, Somerset; d. 31 Oct 1883.
RANDOLPH, THOMAS, eldest son of John Randolph (KS 1763, qv); b. 9 Nov 1788; adm.; KS 1801; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1806, matr. 17 May 1806, Westminster Student; BA 1809; MA 1812; ordained deacon and priest 1812; Rector of Much and Little Hadham, Herts., from 16 Nov 1812; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 16 Nov 1812; Chaplain in Ordinary to George IV (and successive monarchs) 24 Oct 1825 (occurs 1831); m. 28 May 1813 Caroline Diana, youngest dau. of Sir Archibald Macdonald, Bart. (qv); d. 2 May 1875.
RANDOLPH, THOMAS, eldest son of Rev. Thomas Randolph DD, President of Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford and Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, and Thomazine, dau. of William Honywood, and sister of Sir John Honywood, Bart.; b. 4 May 1741 (IGI); adm.; KS (aged 14) 1755; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1759, matr. 19 Jun 1759, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1760 – res 22 Dec 1770 (expiry year of grace as R. Saltwood from 9 Jan 1770); BA 1763; MA 1766; ordained deacon 2 Jun 1765, priest 22 Jun 1766 (both Oxford); Rector of Saltwood with Hythe, Kent, from 1770; Vicar of Waltham with Petham, Kent, from 1783; m. 1770 Judith, sister of William Isaac Rutton (qv); d. 18 Jul 1808.
RANDOLPH, THOMAS, second son of William Randolph, Hamsey, near Lewes, Sussex, Steward to Edward, 11th Baron Zouch, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Smith, Newnham-cum-Badby, Northants; b. 15 Jun 1605; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1623, adm. scholar 1624, matr. Easter 1624; BA Jan 1627/8; MA 1631 (incorp. Oxford 1631); Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 22 Sep 1629, Major Fellow 23 Mar 1631/2; showed early talent as a writer; became acquainted with Ben Jonson (qv), who is said to have always called him his son after their first meeting; became famous at Cambridge as a writer of English and Latin verse, and as an organiser of dramatic performances by the students of pieces of his own composition; went to London in 1632; “accounted one of the most pregnant witts of his age” (Wood, Ath. Oxon., i, 565); author, Aristippus or the Jovial Philosopher, and The Jealous Lovers, 1630; his Poems with the Muses’ Looking Glass and Amyntas were published posthumously in 1638; the loss of one of his little fingers in a duel is the subject of an elegy by William Hemming (qv); buried Blatherwycke, Notrthants 17 Mar 1634/5, aged 29. DNB.
RANDOLPH, ROBERT, brother of Thomas Randolph (elected to Cambridge 1623); bapt. 26 May 1611; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1629, matr. 24 Feb 1631/2, aged 19, Westminster Student to 1642; BA 1633; MA 1636; ordained priest (Peterborough) 5 Jun 1642; Vicar of Barnetby, Lincs.; Vicar of Donington, Lincs.; Wood describes him as “a most ingenious poet” (Fasti Oxonienses, i, 430); edited a collection of his brother’s works, 1638; m. 1st, --- Whitestone, Whittlesey, Cambs.; m. 2nd, Joyce Weston, widow; buried Donington, Lincs. 7 Jul 1671.