RIDLEYS OF WILLIMOTESWICK, NORTHUMBERLAND.
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of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and is now preserved at Somerset
House, London.
[Dr. Humphrey Ridley16 (1), M. D., was a son of Thomas Ridley, of
Mansfield, County Nottingham; born in 1653, admitted a student of Mer-
ton College, Oxford, in 1661. "He left the University," says Wood,
"without taking his degree, and went to Cambridge, where he was doc-
torated in physic. He graduated Doctor of Medicine at Leyden, in 1679,
and was admitted at Cambridge, in 1688. He was admitted a candidate
of the College of Physicians, 30th September, 1692. He was Gulstonian
Lecturer in 1694, and performed the duties of his office to the honour of
the College, to the establishment of his own reputation, and the general
satisfaction of the learned auditory. He practised his profession in Lon-
don. Wrote The Anatomy of the Brain, containing its Mechanism and
Physiology; together with some new Discoveries and Corrections of an-
tient and modern Authors upon the subject,' London, 1695; and 'A par-
ticular account of Animal Functions and Muscular Motion.' Both tracts
published in 1694, were dedicated to Dr. J. Lawson, president of the Col-
lege of Physicians. He died in April, 1708." *]
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SEVENTEENTH GENERATION.
John Ridley (11), eldest son of John16 (10), died unmarried.
Nelville Ridley" (1), second son of John16 (10), died young.
Wilford Ridley" (1), third son of John16 (10), died young.
Nicholas Ridley" (10), fourth son of John16 (10), was born at Hard-
riding, an ancient seat of the Ridley family, about 1650; married Martha,
daughter of Richard March, a merchant of Newcastle, and had issue five
sons and four daughters, of whom hereafter. He moved to Newcastle-
on-Tyne when a young man, entered heartily into trade, and soon became
an eminent merchant. He was twice mayor of the city, first in 1688, the
year of the "glorious Revolution," and again in 1706, that in which the
treaty of union between England and Scotland was signed. "He was,"
says Bourne, "esteemed a man of great honour and integrity, and an ex-
cellent magistrate." By his last will and testament, dated 7th December,
1710, he gave and bequeathed to the poor of the parish of Halt whistle
forty shillings per annum out of a little farm or tenement called Wagtail
Hall. He also bequeathed an annual rent-charge of four pounds ten shil-
lings to the poor of Newcastle, while he gave a donation of fifty pounds.
to the poor of Carlisle, and twenty pounds to the poor of Hexham town-
ship. He died Jan. 22, 1710-11, and lies buried in St. Nicholas' Church,
at the entrance into the chancel from the body of the sacred edifice.
Godfrey Ridley" (1), fifth son of John16 (10), died young.
Edward Ridley" (1), sixth son of John16 (10), was born in 1652; mar-
ried Dorothy, daughter of Allen Chamberlayne, and had issue one son and
four daughters. He was styled "of Lincoln's Inn."
Jane Ridley" (3), a daughter of John16 (10), was the wife of Christo-
pher Barrows, Gentleman.
Mary Ridley" (3), a daughter of John16 (10), was the wife of Thomas
Pate, clerk vicar.
Barbara Ridley" (3), a daughter of John¹6 (10), died young.
* I do not know the pedigree of this man, and place this notice here because of
contemporary dates.
