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GLEANINGS AND NOTES.
RICHARD RIDLEY held lands in Ribbleton, in the parish of Preston, and
died there Feb. 27, 1602-3. An inquisition was taken at Preston, Aug. 17,
1607, when it was found that he left a son, JOHN RIDLEY, then aged 22
years, who was his heir. A Latin abstract of this inquisition has been
printed in Volume XCIX, page 163, of the publications of the Chatham
Society.
RICHARD RIDLEY, of Abbotsastley, Shropshire; FRANCIS RIDLEY, of
Windsor, Berkshire; WILLIAM RADLEY, of the Hall of the Hill, Lanca-
shire; CHARLES RADLEY, of Lowth, Lincolnshire; and NATHANIEL Ridler,
of Bisley, Gloucestershire, Esquires, are mentioned in 1673 as Gentlemen
of England.
MARTHA RIDLEY, widow, was married Feb. 27, 1719, to Harbord Har-
riot, single man, son of James, citizen and cloth-worker, of London. She
was buried in St. Bride's Church, London, April 17, 1723, and her daugh-
ter, Sarah Harriot (who was born Jan. 13, 1720), buried July 29, 1721.
ELIZABETH RIDLEY, daughter of Jannet Bayley, who was buried in
Westminster Abbey, and granddaughter of the Rev. Thomas Yates, D. D.
She was born June 10, and baptized at St. James', Westminster, July 9,
1748; was unmarried in 1776, but living Oct. 28, 1782, as above named.
MRS. FRANCES RIDLEY, widow of W. T. Ridley, and daughter of the
late Capt. Alexander Innes, R. N., granddaughter of the Rev. N. Ellison,
M. A., Vicar of Newcastle-on-Tyne, was married June 4, 1864, at Wallsend,
to the Rev. E. H. Augustine Geake, B. A., rector of Willington.
REV. JOHN RIDLEY, Brownhill, Bristol, Leeds; London College of Di-
vinity second class, 1875; deacon, 1875, by Bishop of Winchester for Bishop
of Ripon; curate of Brownhill, diocese of Ripon, 1875. In 1883, was
vicar of Yorkshire parish. Brothers mentioned.
JOHN RIDLEY, Esq., of Hawthorne, County of Durham, Eng., had a
son, John-Frederick Ridley, Esq., his successor, who died sine prole in
February, 1829, and a daughter Catherine, who married, Oct. 31, 1816,
Robert Atkins, Esq., of Firville, County of Cork, Ireland.
GEORGE RIDLEY, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, brother of John-Thomas, is an
engineer. Mr. William Coulson, an old and well-informed Northumber-
land man, says this gentleman is a representative of the elder line of the
ancient Willimoteswick family, but I have no particulars.
WILLIAM-WELLS RIDLEY, Esq., of Leamington, son of T. D. Ridley,
Esq., of the Elms, Chelmsford, Essex, was married at St. Luke's, Chelten-
ham, in 1864, to Emily-Mary, youngest daughter of the late Maj. Chris-
topher Newport, of the Royal army, Bombay, India.
REV. CHRISTOPHER RIDLEY, Aylesbury; University of London, B. A.,
1876; deacon, 1877; priest in 1878 by Bishop of Oxford; curate of Ayles-
bury, diocese of Oxford, 1877. He was master of a grammar-school in
1883. He is a brother of the bishop.
JOSEPH-SIMPSON RIDLEY, M. D., 10 Lune Street, Preston, Lancashire;
M. D. St. And. 1859; M. R. C. S., Eng., and L. M. 1858; L. S. A. 1867
(St. Barthol.); Med. Off. 8th Dist., and Workh., Preston Union; Med.
Ref. Briton Med. Gen. Life Association.
