440 RIDLEYS OF WILLIMOTESWICK, NORTHUMBERLAND.
ter of James Ferrier, Esq., of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, London, by whom he
had issue. He was of Christ Church, Oxford, B. A., 1801, M. A., April 19,
1804. He was instituted rector of Hambleden, where he served the cause
of his Master for many years, as a faithful and devoted representative of
the holy religion he professed. He died on Feb. 3, 1832, and a memorial
sermon was subsequently preached in his church by the Rev. John-Charles
Williams, M. A., which was published, but I cannot find a copy of it. His
wife deceased June 13, 1837, having had three sons and two daughters, of
whom hereafter.
Rev. Charles-John Ridley" (2), M. A., fourth son of Matthew20 (2),
was born Sept. 5, 1792, and became second Earl of Eldon. He was of
University College, Oxford, B. A., June 9, 1813, M. A., Oct. 31, 1817. It
is presumed he married and had a family, but I can learn no particulars.
relative to his history.
Rev. Richard Ridley" (9), M. A., fifth son of Matthew20 (2), born Aug.
28, 1782; married, Nov. 8, 1810, Catherine-Lucy, only daughter of the
Rev. Richard-Pepplewell Johnson, of Ashton-upon-Mersey, Cheshire. He
was of University College, Oxford, B. A., Nov. 24, 1803, M. A., June
16, 1806, and was presented to Cramlington that year by his father; and
to Leathy, in the County of York, as perpetual curate, in 1826, by the
Lord Chancellor. He died at Green Hamerton, in June, 1845, aged 62
years; his widow died in 1853.
Henrietta-Elizabeth Ridley" (1), only daughter of Matthew20 (2), was
married, firstly, Aug. 2, 1804, to the Hon. John Scott, eldest son of John,
first Earl of Eldon, who died Dec. 24, 1805, and her only son became
the second Earl of Eldon. She re-married, July 7, 1811, to William Far-
rer, Esq., of Ingleborough, Yorkshire; he died Nov. 9, 1862, leaving issue.
Elizabeth Ridley" (6), only daughter of Henry (2), D. D., was of
Lawn Cottage, Battersea, and died unmarried in July, 1862, aged 82.
Rev. Henry-John Ridley" (4), a son of Henry20 (2), was born about
1788; married, Jan. 28, 1813, to Elizabeth-M.-Antoinette, eldest daughter
of John Ellis, Esq., brother of Charles, first Lord Seaford, of Mainhead
House, Devonshire (she died Dec. 12, 1816), and had issue, of whom here-
after. He was of Christ Church, Oxford, B. A., Feb. 23, 1801, M. A.,
Nov. 17, 1803. He was presented to a prebend at Bristol, in 1816, and to
Kirby, Underwood, in 1827, by his relative, Lord Eldon. He exchanged
his prebend at Bristol, for one at Norwich, in 1832. He married, sec-
ondly, in 1823, Elizabeth, daughter of Lee-Steere Steere, Esq., of Jayess,
Surrey, who, surviving her husband, became the wife, Sept. 28, 1843, of
Sir Robert Peel, who had been elevated to the peerage by the title of
Baron Abinger, of Abinger, County of Surrey. He died April 7, 1844.
(This lady has in her possession, with other relics, the chair in which
Bishop Nicholas Ridley used to study.) He was instituted rector of Ab-
inger Church, May 26, 1821; was instituted rector of Newdigate, March
3, 1814.
He died Nov. 14, 1834. Pious without bigotry; generous with-
out ostentation; kind without weakness; social without levity, he em-
ployed the short time allotted him by his Master in the discharge of ac-
tive duties, and in the exercise of benevolent affections.
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* There was an Arthur Ridley who was styled "of Clinton Park," County Buck-
ingham, said by one authority to have been a son of Henry20 (2), but I query this.
