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GLEANINGS AND NOTES.
MARIA RIDdell. Voyages to the Madeira and Leeward Caribbean Isl-
ands. Edinburgh, 1792. 12mo.
COL. ROBERT RIDDELL. The Riddellian System; or, New Medical Im-
provements. 1808. 8vo.
ROBERT RIDDELL, of Glen-Riddell. Antiquarian papers in Archaeo-
logia. 1789-90-92-94.
REV. ARCHIBALD RIDDELL. Model of the Government of New Jersey
in America. (Rare.)
C. I. RIDDELL. Remarks on the Organization of the British Royal
Artillery.
JOHN RIDDELL. Continued Fevers. Glasgow, 1788.
WALTER RIDDELL-CARRE.
Memoirs of Scottish Border.
RIDLEYS AND RIDLERS.
MATTHEW RIDLEY, of Baltimore, married Catherine, second daughter
of Gov. William Livingstone, of New Jersey, whose family was one of
the most cultivated and distinguished in the days of the Revolution; seated
at a fine place called "Liberty Hall," near Elizabethtown. I do not know
the connections of Mr. Ridley; but he was engaged in business at Nantez,
in 1778. He was styled " of Baltimore," at the time of his marriage with
the celebrated "Kitty Livingstone," and his alliance with that well-known
family seems good ground for believing he was a gentleman of wealth
and education. The name "Matthew" prevails in the English family of
Ridley, and as many of the Northumberland stock came to America about
this time, he may have been one of them. He lived but a few years.
SAMUEL RIDLEY, a person of penurious habits, died at Boston, Lincoln-
shire, in January, 1858, aged 73 years. He lived alone in a little, old cot-
tage, and performed all his household work without assistance, keeping
everything very clean. Until within a few days of his death he worked
on his land as hard as any of his laborers, whom he watched from an old
hovel, where he was wont to lie down to rest when too weak to work.
His death was, no doubt, accelerated by the want of sustenance, and his
poor horses bore testimony to their partaking of a singularly hard fare.
He was possessed of property to the amount of two thousand pounds.
REV. THOMAS-YATES RIDLEY died at Heysham, near Lancaster, in 1838,
aged 42 years. Rector of that parish. He was of Peterhouse, Cambridge,
B. A. 1820, M. A. 1823; and was instituted to his living in 1824, on his
own petition. Thinking it to be the duty of a clergyman to look to the
temporal comforts as well as the spiritual wants of his people, he studied
medicine at Edinburgh. He was at once the eloquent and faithful min-
ister, the kind and bountiful, and the attentive and skilful physician of
the poor people in his parish, who lived in a village six miles distant from
other medical aid.
