Men-at-the-Bar/Rickards, Sir George Kettilby

3832204Men-at-the-Bar — Rickards, Sir George KettilbyJoseph Foster


Rickards, Sir George Kettilby, K.C.B. 4 July, 1882, M.A. (fellow), Queen's Coll., Oxon, 1835, from Eton, counsel to speaker of House of Commons and referee on private bills 1851-82, professor of political economy Oxford Univ. 1851-6, member of council King's Coll., London, 1871-3, a student of the Inner Temple 14 Nov., 1831 (then aged 19), called to the bar 9 June, 1837, bencher 27 May, 1873 (eldest son of George Rickards, Esq., of London); born 24 Jan., 1812; married 1st, 16 Aug., 1842, Frances Phœbe, 2nd dau. of late Rev. John Henry George Lefroy, of Ewshott House, Hants; she died 22 Sept., 1859; he married 2ndly, , 1861, Julia Cassandra, 2nd dau. of late Rev. Benjamin Lefroy, rector of Ashe, Hants; she died 30 Jan., 1884 (see Foster's Baronetage).

Fyfield House, Oxford; Athenæum Club, S.W.