RICHARDS, FRANCIS, son of John Richards MD, Chelsea, Middlesex; bapt. St. Luke, Chelsea 3 Dec 1697 (IGI); adm.; QS 1712; left 1716; Queens’ Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 25 Aug 1716; migr. to Emmanuel Coll. 16 May 1721; MB 1722; practised at Grantham, Lincs.; d. 11 Feb 1760.

RICHARDS, EDWARD, elder son of William Richards (at school under Wilson, qv); b.; adm. 18 Feb 1656/7; KS (aged 14) 1660; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1663, adm. pens. 4 Jul 1663, scholar 1664, matr. 1663; migr. to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Jul 1664, Canoneer Student 7 Jul 1664 – void 1666; adm. Middle Temple 20 May 1663; inherited father’s landed property at Georgeham and Barnstaple, Devon.

RICHARDS, EDWARD VAUGHAN, eldest son of William Parry Richards (qv); b. 18 Nov 1821; adm. 27 Jun 1834 (Benthall's); KS 1836; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1840, matr, 3 Jun 1840, Westminster Student; rowed v. Cambridge 1841; BA 1844; MA 1846; adm. Inner Temple 10 Jan 1844, called to bar 30 Apr 1847, Bencher 26 Apr 1868; Oxford Circuit; QC 21 Feb 1868; m. 30 Oct 1866 Elizabeth Anne, dau. of Robert Wharton, barrister; d. 26 Sep 1884.

RICH, WILLIAM GORDON, brother of John Rich (qv); b. 28 Feb 1829; adm. 8 Jun 1841 (Benthall's); QS (Capt. ) 1843; Capt. of the School 1846; rowed v. Eton 29 Jul 1845, 30 Jul 1846; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 May 1847, Westminster Student 1847-55; won University pairs with Arthur Milman (qv) 1847; rowed in Christ Church eight which was Head of the River 1847-9 and in Oxford eight which won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley 1848, 1850, 1851; rowed stroke for Oxford in the two races against Cambridge 1851; President, Oxford University Boat Club 1849-51; BA 1851; a sheep farmer in New Zealand; m. 21 Feb 1856 Maria Stuart, dau. of Joseph Maitland; d. at Christchurch, New Zealand 6 Jul 1912.

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.

RICE, VINCENT, son of Rev. David Rice, Vicar of Ambleston, Pembrokeshire, and Jane --- (IGI); b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1695; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1699, adm. pens. 20 Jun 1699, aged 19, scholar 12 Apr 1700, matr. 1699/1700; BA 1702/3; ordained deacon (Ely) 20 Sep 1702, priest (Lincoln) 23 May 1703; Rector of Fretherne, Gloucs., from 21 Dec 1720; an interesting letter from Rice’s father in reference to the conduct of the election of 1699 is preserved at Trinity Coll. Cambridge (printed Elizabethan iii, 101); buried Frampton-on-Severn, Gloucs., 25 Nov 1734.

RICE, JOHN ADAMSON, son of Henry Rice, and Sarah Sampson (IGI); b. Dover, Kent 29 Mar 1778; adm.; KS 1793; Writer, EICS Madras 1796; arrived in India 1 Oct 1798; Second Assistant to Collector, Canara 1799; d. at Madras 21 Oct 1799.

RICE, FRANCIS WILLIAM, 5TH BARON DINEVOR, son of Hon. Edward Rice (qv); b. 10 May 1804; adm. 26 Apr 1813; KS 1818; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 18 Oct 1822; BA 1826; MA 1847; ordained deacon and priest 1828 (both Gloucester); Vicar of Fairford, Gloucs., from 22 Dec 1828; succ. cousin as 5th Baron Dinevor 7 Oct 1869; m. 1st, 3 Feb 1830 Harriet Ives, dau. of Daniel Raymond Barker, Fairford Park, Gloucs.; m. 2nd, 18 Nov 1856 Eliza Amelia, eldest dau. of Rev. Henry Carnegie Knox, Rector of Lechlade, Gloucs.; d. 3 Aug 1878.

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.