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    Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, DL, FRSL, FMedSci (born 7 February 1958), is a British science writer, journalist and businessman. He is known...
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    Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley, PC, DL (25 July 1842 – 28 November 1904), known as Sir Matthew White Ridley, 5th Baronet, from 1877 to 1900...
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  • (1745–1813) Sir Matthew White Ridley, 3rd Baronet (1778–1836) Sir Matthew White Ridley, 4th Baronet (1807–1877) Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley (1842–1904)...
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    Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley KG, GCVO, TD, DL (29 July 1925 – 22 March 2012), was a British nobleman. He was Lord Steward of the Household...
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    Viscount Ridley is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1900 for the Conservative politician Sir Matthew White Ridley, 5th Baronet...
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  • Matthew White Ridley, 3rd Viscount Ridley CBE (16 December 1902 – 25 February 1964) was a British peer, landowner, public servant and race car driver...
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    Matthew White Ridley, 2nd Viscount Ridley, JP, DL (6 December 1874 – 14 February 1916) was a British peer and Conservative politician. His political career...
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  • Sir Matthew White Ridley, 4th Baronet (9 September 1807 – 25 September 1877) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was appointed...
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    Blagdon Hall (category Ridley family)
    about 1720 and 1752 by Matthew White and his son Sir Matthew White, 1st Baronet, whose sister Elizabeth married Matthew Ridley (1711–1778), four times...
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  • Sir Matthew White Ridley, 3rd Baronet (18 April 1778 – 14 July 1836) was a politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle...
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    1990. He was created a life peer in 1992. Ridley was the second son of Matthew White Ridley, 3rd Viscount Ridley, and Ursula (née Lutyens), daughter of architect...
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    Sir Matthew White Ridley, 2nd Baronet (28 October 1745 – 9 April 1813), was a Northumbrian landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between...
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  • 10th Duke of Northumberland 16 May 1956 – 3 January 1984 Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley 3 January 1984 – 25 August 2000 Sir John Buchanan-Riddell...
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  • Matthew Ridley (14 November 1711 – 6 April 1778), of Heaton, Northumberland, was a barrister, country gentleman, brewer, coal magnate, owner of glass-works...
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    Matthew White Ridley (1745–1813) Sarah Colborne (1755–1806) James Farrer (1751–1820) Frances Loxham (c. 1760–1826) Matthew White Ridley (1778–1836) Nicholas...
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  • Berkeley Arthur Cole is married to Cecilia Ridley, a daughter of Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley, and they have two sons. Andrew Enniskillen...
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    Place, London for £32.12.0 and was sold by him the next day to Sir Matthew White Ridley of Blagdon, Northumberland for £43.1.0. The painting was subsequently...
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    Parliament. The foundation stone on the north side was laid by Sir Matthew White Ridley on 25 April 1775, with the south side foundation stone laid in 1776...
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    Retrieved 28 May 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. Known as Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt, from 1877. Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary...
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    the jury that convicted him) by petitioning the Home Secretary Sir Matthew White Ridley for the sentence to be allowed to be carried out. On the morning...
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  • Ridley lost his father during the Second World War. His grandfather, Sir Jasper Nicholas Ridley (1887–1951), was the younger son of Matthew White Ridley...
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  • Macpherson, 3rd Baron Strathcarron 2022 8 February 2022 Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley Jonathan Berry, 5th Viscount Camrose 2022 29 March 2022...
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  • Major-General Charles William Ridley CB (1812 – 1 February 1867) was a British soldier. He was the second son of Sir Matthew White Ridley, 3rd Baronet (who died...
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    East Fife 18 August 1892 25 June 1895 Liberal Gladstone IV Rosebery Matthew White Ridley MP for Blackpool 29 June 1895 12 November 1900 Conservative Salisbury...
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    composer Elisabeth Lutyens, and aunt of the 4th Viscount Ridley and the politician Nicholas Ridley. As a child, Lutyens spent time with her maternal grandmother...
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    preceded the county council. The first chairman of the council was Matthew White Ridley, who was also the Conservative MP for Blackpool (in Lancashire)....
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    the younger son of Sir Matthew White Ridley, 2nd Baronet, and Sarah (d. 1806), daughter of Benjamin Colborne (see Viscount Ridley for earlier history of...
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    Christopher Reid 1999 Sir Christopher Ricks 1970 Jane Ridley 2007 Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley 1999 Denise Riley 2019 Gwendoline Riley 2018 William...
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    Spencer-Churchill in 1873) Mary Georgina Marjoribanks (married Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley, in 1873) Stewart (died aged 11) Annie Grizel (died aged...
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  • Brandling in December 1797 Ridley succeeded as the 3rd Baronet, upon the death of his father (and predecessor as MP) in 1813 Ridley's death caused a by-election...
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