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978 RIDEOUT. 

entered the Navy, 6 July, 1797, as A.B., on board the, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Lyall, under whom, after cruizing in the Channel, he accompanied, in the capacity of Midshipman, the expedition of 1799 to Holland. In Nov. 1800 he removed to the 100, bearing the flag in the Channel of Sir Hyde Parker; and on following that officer into the  98, he witnessed the battle fought at Copenhagen 2 April, 1801. After visiting the West Indies in the 74, Capt. Robt. Waller Otway, he was received in succession, in the course of 1802-3, on board the 32, Capt. David Atkins, and  and  64’s, Capts. Hon. Francis Farington Gardner and Isaac Wolley. In 1804 he sailed in the 74, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Pellew, for the East Indies; where he removed, in Jan. 1805, to the 74, Capt. John Ferrier, went back, in the ensuing Sept., to the, and was nominated, 5 Feb. 1806, Acting-Lieutenant of the  36, commanded by the present Sir Josiah Coghill Coghill. He was confirmed a Lieutenant 21 Sept. 1807; and was subsequently appointed – 18 Dec. 1807, to the 14, Capt. Wm. Hargood, on the Mediterranean station – 17 Sept. 1810, to the 74, Capt. Jas. Walker, in which ship he served in the North Sea and West Indies, escorted the Allied Sovereigns over from France in the summer of 1814, and accompanied the expedition against New Orleans – 12 Sept. and 31 Dec. 1815, and 17 Aug. 1816, to the, , and 74’s, all commanded, as guard-ships at Sheerness, by Capt. Jas. Walker, with whom he remained until paid off in Sept. 1818 – 21 March, 1823, and 6 May, 1824, as Senior Lieutenant, to the 46, Capt. Sir John Phillimore, and  74, Capts. Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen and Joshua Sydney Horton, on the Home station – and 27 March, 1826, again as First, to the 84, bearing the flag of Sir Robt. Waller Otway in South America. While serving in the latter ship he was promoted to the rank of Commander 11 May, 1827. He continued in her in that capacity until she was put out of commission in Sept. 1829; and has not been since afloat.

 RIDER. 

entered the Navy, in 1781, as A.B., on board the, Capt. Jas. King, employed in the Channel; and in the course of the following year became Midshipman, under the same officer, of the, on the West India station. Between 1786 and the commencement of the French revolutionary war he served on the coast of Scotland, at Newfoundland, and in the Channel and Mediterranean, in the, Capt. Rich. Rundell Burgess,, Capt. Herbert Sawyer, 50, flag-ship of Admiral Milbanke,  38, Capt. Henry Trollope, and  100, bearing the flag of Admiral Hotham. He was afterwards, until the peace of Amiens, employed in the Mediterranean and Channel, as Lieutenant, on board the 64 and  38, both commanded by Capt. Chas. Tyler, 98, Capt. Sampson Edwards, and  110, Capt. Wm. Wolseley. In the he took part, we believe, in Hotham’s first partial action 14 March, 1795; and in the  he was wrecked, near Tunis, 18 July, 1798. During the two or three years which anteceded his promotion to the rank of Commander 22 Jan. 1806, he served at home in the Sea Fencibles and in the 64, Capt. Isaac Wolley,  sloop, Capt. John Davies (a), and  50, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith. He subsequently commanded the 44, and, for a long time, the  sloop, on the Home and West India stations. On 20 Nov. 1810 he lost his commission by the sentence of a court-martial for returning home with despatches from the Lieutenant-Governor of Curaçoa without having obtained the previous authority of the naval Commander-in-Chief at Jamaica; but the court, feeling strongly that in the commission of this offence against professional etiquette he had been misled by error of judgment, arising from the best motives for the welfare of his king and country, earnestly recommended him to the favourable consideration of the Admiralty. He was in consequence restored to his former rank in March, 1811. He has since been on half-pay.

Commander Eider is married and has issue. – Joseph Woodhead.

 RIDGE. 

passed his examination 21 Nov. 1843; became Mate, 3 Feb. 1846, of the 90, Capt. Nich. Lockyer, attached to the Channel squadron; and obtained his commission 9 Nov. in the same year. His appointments have since been – 26 April, 1847, to the 72, receiving-ship at Jamaica, Capt. Geo. Robt. Lambert – 25 June, 1847, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the 50, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen, Commander-in-Chief in North America and the West Indies – and 5 Oct. 1847, to the 26, Capt. Granville Gower Loch, with whom he is at present serving on the station last mentioned.

 RIGGE. 

is second son of Gray Rigge, Esq., of Wood Broughton House, co. Lancaster, an Acting-Magistrate for Lancashire and the North Riding of co. York, by Sarah, eldest daughter of Edw. Moore, Esq., of Stockwell, and niece of Peter Moore, Esq., Member in several Parliaments for the city of Coventry.

This officer entered the Navy 22 Sept. 1825; passed his examination in 1831; and obtained his commission 28 June, 1838. His appointments have since been – 4 Jan. 1839, to the 16, Capt. Jas. John Stopford, in the Mediterranean – 17 Sept. 1841, after a few months of half-pay, to the steamer, Capts. Hastings Reginald Henry, Hon. Swynfen Thos. Carnegie, and Wm. Hewgill Kitchen, with whom he served on the same station until the close of 1845, the greater part of the time as First-Lieutenant – and 29 June, 1846, and 25 Oct. 1847, to the command of the and  steam-vessels of 350 and 80-horse power, the former in the Mediterranean, the latter on particular service.

 RIGMAIDEN. 

entered the Navy, 6 April, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 16, Capt. Edw. Pelham Brenton, with whom he continued employed, as Midshipman, in the 18 and  74, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Cockburn, and  74, until Nov. 1809. In the he assisted at the bombardment of Havre 23 July and 1 Aug. 1804; and while serving in the  he aided in her boats with those of the  and, commanded by Lieut. Jas. Hay (by whom his conduct was reported in very handsome terms) at the boarding and carrying, 13 Dec. 1808, under a heavy fire from the enemy’s batteries and troops on the beach, of the French 18-gun brig Le Cigne, lying aground to the northward of St. Pierre’s, Martinique. He was present in the same vessel at the reduction of Martinique. In the he escorted the Marquess Wellesley to and from Cadiz. After serving for a year and seven months at St. Helena, in the Channel, and among the Western Islands, in the 44, Capt. Fred. Warren, and as Master’s Mate in the 38, Capt. E. P. Brenton, and  74, flag-ship of Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, he was nominated, in June, 1811, Acting-Lieutenant of the  74, Capt. Robt. Rolles. In the ensuing Aug. he was received as a Supernumerary-Midshipman on board the 38, Capt. Hon.