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 RIDGEWAY, SIR JOSEPH WEST (1844–)

Born 1844 : son of Rev. Joseph Ridgeway : entered the Array, 1860 : and became Lt-Colonel, and Colonel, 1887 : served as Political Officer in Afghan war, 1879–80 : Under Secretary in Foreign Department of the Government of India, 1880–4 : commanded the Indian Contingent of the Afghan Frontier Commission from 1884, and became the Chief Commissioner, 1885 : on special duty to St. Petersburg, 1886–7 : Under Secretary for Ireland, 1887 : Envoy to Sultan of Morocco, 1892–3 : Governor of Isle of Man, 1893–5 : Governor and C. in C. of Ceylon, 1896–1903 : P.C. : K.C.B., 1891 : G.C.M.G., 1900 : K.C.S.I., 1885 : LL.D. Cambridge and Edinburgh.

RIDGEWAY, RICHARD KIRBY (1848–)

Born Aug. 18, 1848 : son of R. Ridgeway : educated privately and at Sand- hurst : entered the Army, 1868, and Indian Staff Corps, 1872 : Adjutant 44th Gurkhas, 1874–80 : Staff College, 1883 : D.A.Q.M.G., 1884 : A.Q.M.G. in India, 1889–90 : A.A.G., Peshawar, 1893–1900 : served in Naga Hills, 1875 and 1879–80 : Manipur, 1891 : A.A.G., second Division, Tirah, 1897 : V.C. for gallantry at Konoma in Assam, Nov. 22, 1879.

RIEU, CHARLES (1820–1902)

Born at Geneva, 1820 : educated at the Academy there and at Bonn, 1840–3 : took a Doctor's degree : read Arabic with Freytag and Gildemeister, Sanskrit with Lassen : Member of the French Societe Asiatique, 1844 : worked with von Bohtlingk and published the St. Petersburg Sanskrit Dictionary, 1847 : joined the British Museum, 1847 : was Curator of Oriental MSS. from 1867 : completed Catalogues of Arabic, Persian, Turkish MSS : became Adams Professor of Arabic, Cambridge, 1894: died March 19, 1902.

RINGELTAUBE, REV. WILLIAM TOBIAS (1770– ? )

Missionary : son of Gottlieb Ringeltaube. Vicar, near Brieg in Silesia : born, there, Aug. 8, 1770 : educated at Halle, from 1789 : ordained by the S.P.C.K. as Missionary to Calcutta, where he arrived, Oct. 1797 : returned to England, 1799 : went out, via Copenhagen in 1804, for the London Missionary Society to the Mission at Tranquebar, in Travancore : became a pioneer of Mission work : took charge of the Tinnevelly Mission, and removed, 1806, to Palamcotta; visited Tuticorin, Cochin, and scattered congregations in the South of India : toured also and preached to the con-verts at Madura, Trichinopoly, Ramnad, etc. : left the S.P.C.K., Tinnevelly, and returned to Travancore, 1807 : during the Tranvacore war of 1808–9 his life was in danger : built the first Protestant church at Mylandy, 1809, and churches in six other places : toured constantly : fell ill in 1815 : left Quilon in Feb. 1816 making over the Travancore Protestant Mission to his Catechist, Vedamanickam : from Madras he went to Ceylon and Malacca, and was never seen again.

RIPON, GEORGE FREDERICK SAMUEL, FIRST MARQUESS OF (1827–)

Viceroy and Governor- General : born Oct. 24, 1827 : son of first Earl : succeeded his father, 1859 : M.P. for Hull, 1852–3 : Huddersfield, 1853–7 : Yorkshire, W. Riding, 1857–9 : Under Secretary for War, 1859–61 : for India, 1861–3 : Secretary of State for War, 1863–6 : for India, 1866 : Lord President of the Council, 1868–73 : made a Marquess,1871 : Governor-General of India, 1880–4 : the Afghan war was concluded, and Kandahar given up : he repealed the Vernacular Press Act : extended Local Self Government : appointed an Education Commission : the "Ilbert Bill" aroused the strongest opposition and was passed with a compromise : later, he became First Lord of the Admiralty, 1886 : Secretary for Colonies, 1892–5 : K.G. : P.C. : G.C.S.I. : G.C.I.E. : D.C.L. : F.R.S.

RISLEY, HERBERT HOPE (1851–)

I.C.S. : educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford : went to Bengal in the Civil Service, 1873 : Secretary to the Government of Bengal, 1891 : Member of the Bengal Legislative Council, 1892–3 and again : acting Financial Secretary, Government of India, 1898 : Director of Ethnography for India, 1901 : Census