Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley

Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley
The Right Honourable
The Viscount Ridley
PC, DL
Home Secretary
In office
29 June 1895 – 12 November 1900
Monarch Victoria
Prime Minister The Marquess of Salisbury
Preceded by Herbert Henry Asquith
Succeeded by Charles Ritchie
Personal details
Born 25 July 1842(1842-07-25)
London, England
Died 28 November 1904(1904-11-28) (aged 62)
Blagdon, Somerset, England
Nationality British
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Hon. Mary Marjoribanks
(1850–1899)
Alma mater Balliol College, Oxford

Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley PC, DL (25 July 1842 – 28 November 1904), known as Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt from 1877 to 1900, was a British Conservative politician and statesman. He notably served as Home Secretary from 1895 to 1900.

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Background and education

Ridley was born in London, the eldest son of Sir Matthew White Ridley, 4th Baronet and his wife the Hon. Cecilia Anne, daughter of James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale and his wife Cecilia Arabella Frances Barlow. He was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1865, he was a Fellow of All Souls for nine years.

Political career

In 1868, he was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Northumberland North, and held this seat for seventeen years before being returned as member for the Blackpool Division of North Lancashire in 1886. Having been Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department for two years in Disraeli's administration, Sir Matthew Ridley (as he became when he succeeded his father as fifth baronet in 1877) was Financial Secretary to the Treasury in Lord Salisbury's interim government of 1885 to 1886. In 1895, after the fall of Lord Rosbery's ministry, and having already failed in April of that year to be elected Speaker of the House of Commons, Ridley became Home Secretary, and held this post until his retirement in 1900. He was that same year created Viscount Ridley and Baron Wensleydale, of Blagdon and Blyth in the County of Northumberland.

Family

Lord Ridley married Mary Georgiana Marjoribanks (1850 – 14 March 1909), daughter of Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth and his wife Isabella Weir-Hogg, on 10 December 1873. They were parents to five children:

Lord Ridley died aged 62 at his Blagdon home, and was buried there.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Matthew Ridley, Bt
Lord Henry Percy
Member of Parliament for North Northumberland
18681885
With: Earl Percy
Cconstituency abolished
Preceded by
Hon. Frederick Stanley
Member of Parliament for Blackpool
18861900
Succeeded by
Henry Wilson Worsley-Taylor
Political offices
Preceded by
Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, Bt
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
1878–1880
Succeeded by
Arthur Peel
Preceded by
Sir Henry Holland, Bt
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
1885–1886
Succeeded by
William Jackson
Preceded by
H. H. Asquith
Home Secretary
1895–1900
Succeeded by
Charles Ritchie
Baronetage of Great Britain
Preceded by
Matthew Ridley
Baronet
(of Blagdon) 
1877–1904
Succeeded by
Matthew White Ridley
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Viscount Ridley
1900–1904
Succeeded by
Matthew White Ridley

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