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he married (8 April, 1851) hia cousin Henrietta Ann Theodosia, elder daughter of Captain Henry Vyner, and by her had two children, Frederick Oliver, who succeeded to his honours, and Mary Sarah, who died in infancy. Inheriting the principles which were common to the great Whig families, Lord Ripon remained through his long public life one of the most generally respected supporters of Liberalism, and even those who most severely criticised his admin- istrative ability — and in his time he held very many of the great offices of state — recognized the integrity and disinterestedness of his aims. He entered the House of Commons as member for Hull in 1852, and after representing Huddersfield (1853-57), and the West Riding of Yorkshire (1857-59), he succeeded his father as Earl of Ripon and Vis(!Ount Goderich on 28 Jan., 1859, taking his seat in the House of Lords. In the following November he suc- ceeded his uncle as Earl de Grey and Baron Gran- tham. In the same year he first took office, and was a member of every Liberal adminis- tration for the next half-century. The offices he held were: under sec- retary of State for war (1859- 61); under secre- tary of State for India (1861- 1863); secretary of State for war (1863-66), all un- der Lord Palmer-

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Bton; secretary of State for India (1866) under Earl Russell. In Mr. Gladstone's first administration he was lord president of the council (1868-73) and during this period acted as chairman of the joint commission for drawing up the Treaty of Washington, which settled the Alabama claims (1876). For this great public service he was created Marquess of Ripon. He also was grand master of the freemasons from 1871 to 1874, when he resigned this office to enter the Catholic Church. He was received at the London Oratory, 4 Sept., 1S74. When Gladstone returned to power in 1880 he appointed Lord Ripon Governor- General and Viceroy of India, the office with which his name willev^er be connected, he having made himself beloved by the Indian subjects of the Crown as no one of his predecessors had been. He held this office until 1884. In the short administration of 1886 he was first lord of the admiralty, and in that of 1892- 1895 he was secretary of State for the Colonies. When the Liberals again returned to power he took office as lord privy seal. This office he resigned in 1908. Ever a fervent Catholic, Lord Riix)n took a great share in educational and charitable works. He was president of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul from 1899 until his death ; vice-president of the Cath- olic Union, and a great supporter of St. Joseph's Catholic Missionary Society.

The Tablet (17 July, 1909); Annual Register (London. 1909).

Edwin Burton.

Risby, Richard, b. in the parish of St. Lawrence, Reading, 1490; executed at Tyburn, London, 20 April, 1534. He entered Winchester College in 1500, and was subsequently a fellow of New College, Oxford, taking his degree in 1510. He resigned in 1513 to enter the Franciscan Order, and eventually became warden of the Observant friary at Canterbury.

He was condemned to death by the Act of Attainder, 25 Henry VIII, c. 12, together with Elizabeth Barton, Edward Bocking, Hugh Rich, warden of the Ob- servant friary at Richmond, John Dering, B.D. (Oxon.), Benedictine of Christ Church, Canterbury, Henry Gold, M.A. (Oxon.), parson of St. Mary, Alder- manbury, London, and vicar of Hayes, Middlesex, and Richard Master, rector of Aldington, Kent, who was pardoned; but by some strange oversight Master's name is included and Risb^y's omitted in the catalogue of prcetermissi. Father Thomas Bourchier, who took the Franciscan habit at Greenwich about 1557, says that Fathers Risby and Rich were twice offered their lives, if they would accept the king's supremacy.

^ Gairdner, Letters and Papers of the reign of Henry VIII, VI, VII (London, Oxford, Cambridge, Edini)urgh, and Dublin, 1882-3), passim; Gasquet, Henry VIII and the English \fonas- teries (London, 1906), 44; Kirby, Winchester Scholars (London and Winchester, 1888), 98; Boase, Register of the Uuiversitu of Oxford (Oxford, 1885), 71.

J. B. Wainewright.

Rishanger, William, chronicler, b. at Rishangles, Suffolk, about 1250; d. after 1312. He became a Benedictine at St. Alban's Abbey, Hertfordshire in 1271, and there revived the custom of composing chronicles which had languished since the time of Matthew Paris. His chief work is the history of the Barons' Wars, "Narratio de bellis apud Lewes et E^vesham", covering the period from 12.58 to 1267 and including a reference which shows that he was still engaged on it on 3 May, 1312. Apart from its historical matter which is derived from Mat thew Paris and his continuators, it is interesting for the evidence it affords of the extreme veneration in which Simon de Montfort was held at that time. He also wrote a short chronicle about Edward I, "Quiedam recapi- tulatio brevis de gestis domini Edwardi". It is possible, though not very probable, that he wrote the earlier part of a chronicle, "Willelmi Rishanger, monachi S. Albani, Chronica". Four other works attributed to him by Bale are not authentic.

Riley, Willelmi Rishanger chronica et annates in R. S. (London, 1S(33-7G); Riley in Mon. Germ. Hist., XXVIII (Berlin, 1865); Halliwell, Chronicle of William de Rishanger of the Barons' Wars in Camden Society Publications, XV (London, 1840); B^MONT, Simon de Montfort (Paris, 1884) ; Hardy, Descriptive Catalogue (London, 1862-71), I, 871; III, 171-2, 191-3; Tout in Diet. Nat. Biog., s. v.

Edwin Burton.

Rishton, Edward, b. in Lancashire, 1550; d. at Sainte-Menehouid, Lorraine, 29 June, 1.585. He was probably a younger son of John Rishton of Dunken- halgh and Dorothy Southworth. He studied at Oxford from 1568 to 1572, when he proceeded B.A. probably from Braseno.se College. During the next year he was converted and went to Douai to study for the priesthood. He was the first Englishman to matriculate at Douai, and is said to have taken his M.A. degree there. While a student ho drew up and publi-shed a chart of ecclesiastical history, and was one of the two sent to Reims in November, 1576, to see if the college could be removed there. After his ordina- tion at Cambrai (6 April, 1576) he was sent to Rome. In 1580 he returned to England, visiting Reims on the way, but was soon arrested. He was tried and con- demned to death with Blessed Edmund Campion and others on 20 November, 1581, but was not executed, being left in prison, first in King's Bench, then in the Tower. On 21 January he was exiled with several others, being sent under escort as far as Abbeville, whence he made his way to Reims, arriving on 3 March. Shortly aftenvards, at the suggestion of Father Persons, he completed Sander's imperfect "Origin and Growth of the Anglican Schism". With the intention of taking his doctorate in divinity he proceeded to the University of Pont-;\-Mousson in Lorraine, but the plague broke out, and though ho