| 词条 | Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley |
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| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable | name = The Viscount Ridley | native_name = | native_name_lang = | honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KG|GCVO|TD|DL}} | image = Viscount Ridley.jpg | alt = | caption = Viscount Ridley in the robes of a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter | office1 = Lord Steward | term_start1 = 1989 | term_end1 = 2001 | monarch1 = Elizabeth II | predecessor1 =The Duke of Northumberland | successor1 = The Duke of Abercorn | office2 = Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland | term_start2 = 3 January 1984 | term_end2 = 25 August 2000 | monarch2 = Elizabeth II | predecessor2 = The Duke of Northumberland | successor2 = Sir John Riddell, Bt | office3 = Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | term_start3 = 25 February 1964 | term_end3 = 11 November 1999 Hereditary Peerage | predecessor3 = Matthew White Ridley | successor3 = | birth_name = Matthew White Ridley | birth_date = 29 July 1925 | birth_place = Blagdon Hall, Northumberland | death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|3|22|1925|7|29}} | death_place = Blagdon Hall, Northumberland | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | citizenship = | nationality = | party = Conservative Party | otherparty = | spouse = Lady Anne Lumley | partner = | relations = | children = 4 | parents = | residence = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | known_for = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | religion = | awards = Knight of the Garter Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order | nickname = | allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}} | branch = {{army|United Kingdom}} | serviceyears = 1944–1986 | rank = Brevet Colonel | unit = Coldstream Guards, Northumberland Hussars | commands = | battles = World War II | mawards = }}Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley {{post-nominals|KG|GCVO|TD|DL}} (29 July 1925 – 22 March 2012),[1] was a British nobleman. He notably served as Lord Steward of the Household from 1989 to 2001.[2] Background, education and military serviceRidley was the son of Matthew White Ridley, 3rd Viscount Ridley, and Ursula Lutyens, daughter of Sir Edwin Lutyens. His younger brother Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, was a prominent Conservative Party politician who served as a government minister for nearly all of Margaret Thatcher's years as Prime Minister.[3] Matthew Ridley was educated at Eton College and spent several months studying agriculture at King’s College, University of Durham (now Newcastle University). The Second World War interrupted his education and he joined the Coldstream Guards, serving in Normandy and Germany in 1944-45. He then studied at Oxford, graduating with a degree in Agriculture from Balliol College in 1948.[3] He then served as an aide-de-camp to Sir Evelyn Baring, then Governor of Kenya. During this time he furthered his interest in nature and science. In 1955, Ridley and zoologist Lord Richard Percy spent four months on an uninhabited island in the Seychelles studying the plight of the dwindling sooty tern.[3] Later he joined the Territorial Army, reaching the rank of Brevet Colonel in the Northumberland Hussars: he became Honorary Colonel of that unit in 1979.[3] Public lifeRidley succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1964. He was Chairman of Northumberland County Council from 1967 to 1979.[3] He chaired several companies and societies, before serving as Chancellor of the University of Newcastle from 1988 to 1999, as Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland from 1984 to 2000,[4] and as Lord Steward of the Household from 1989 to 2001.[5] He was succeeded by the Duke of Abercorn as Lord Steward in 2001. He was made a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter in 1992[6] and appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1994. He retired in 1999 and did not stand for election as a hereditary peer after the House of Lords Act.[3] Marriage and childrenRidley was married on 3 January 1953 to Lady Anne Katharine Gabrielle Lumley (born 16 November 1928, died 2006), daughter of Lawrence Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough. They had four children together:
Ridley died on 22 March 2012 and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his only son.[3] Styles of address
References1. ^{{cite web|author=Published on Friday 23 March 2012 15:31 |url=http://www.morpethherald.co.uk/news/local-news/viscount-ridley-dies-aged-86-1-4380619 |title=Viscount Ridley dies aged 86 |publisher=Morpeth Herald |date=29 July 1925 |accessdate=23 March 2012}} 2. ^{{cite news|last=Tomlinson|first=Richard|title=They also serve, who only ush|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/they-also-serve-who-only-ush-why-is-the-queen-followed-by-people-in-antique-clothes-richard-tomlinson-on-the-lords-ladies-women-masters-silver-sticks-and-white-staves-at-court-1564751.html|newspaper=Independent|date=20 December 1992}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite news|title=Obituary: Viscount Ridley|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/9165965/Viscount-Ridley.html|accessdate=4 February 2016|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=25 March 2012}} 4. ^{{London Gazette |issue=49610 |date=9 January 1984 |page=295 }} 5. ^{{London Gazette |issue=51747 |date=26 May 1989 |page=6301 }} 6. ^{{London Gazette |issue=52903 |date=24 April 1992 |page=7175 }} External links
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