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GEORGE RIDDING (1828-1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 316 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE RIDDING (1828-1904)  ,
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English headmaster and bishop, was born at Winchester College, of which his
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father, the Rev . Charles Ridding, vicar of
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Andover, was a
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fellow, on the 16th of . March 1828 . He was educated at Winchester and at Balliol College, Oxford . He became a fellow of Exeter College and was' a tutor' from 1853 to 1863 . In 1853 he married Mary Louisa Moberly, who died within a
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year of her
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marriage . He was appointed second master of Winchester College • in 1863, and on the retirement of his father-in-law, Dr Moberly, he succeeded to the headmastership . During the tenure of this office (186.7-1884) he carried out successfully a series of radical reforms in the organization of the school, resulting in a
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great increase both in its reputation and numbers . In 1884 he became the first bishop of Southwell, and brought his powers of organization and conspicuous tact and moderation to bear on the management of the new diocese . He took an active share in its educational and social
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work, and was materially assisted in these respects by his second wife, Lady Laura Palmer, daughter of the 1st
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earl of Selborne . He resigned his see a short time before his
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death, which took place on the 3oth of August 1904 . See Church Quarterly Review (
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July 1905) .

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