2-981-846 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. M. W. Ridley, 1876. 'In the House of Commons the address in answer to the Speech was moved by Mr. Matthew White Ridley, M.P. for North Northumberland...Mr. White Ridley was born in 1842, and, married, 1873, Mary Georgina, eldest daughter of Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, Bart., of Guischam. He was educated at Harrow, and at Balliol College, of which he was scholar; was first class in classics in 1855, and became a Fellow of All Souls' in 1867. He is a Conservative in politics, and has sat for North Northumberland since the last general election, succeeding his father, who had represented that division of the county since 1868'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.