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Ridout
Ridout is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alan Ridout (1934–1996), British composer and teacher * Alexandra Ridout (born 1998), British jazz trumpeter * Dudley Ridout (1866–1941), British soldier * George Percival Ridout (1807–1873), British-Canadian merchant and politician * Godfrey Ridout (1918–1984), Canadian composer and teacher * Heather Ridout (born 1954), Australian businesswoman * Herbert C. Ridout (1881–1948), British journalist and writer * John Ridout (died 1817), Canadian duel victim * Louis Ridout (born 1990), English bowls player * Matilda Ridout Edgar (1844–1910), Canadian historian and feminist * Ronald Ridout (1916–1994), British textbook author * Thomas Ridout (other), several people See also * Rideout Rideout is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alice Rideout (born 1874), American sculptor *Bonnie Rideout (born 1962), American fiddler *George Rideout (born 1945), Canadian politician * Henry Milner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ridout
John Ridout (1799-1817), still a teenager when he died in 1817, died in a duel with Samuel Jarvis. Both Ridout and Jarvis were from the small circle of privileged insiders called upon by the Lieutenant Governors of Upper Canada, to fill administrative posts, and sinecures, that William Lyon Mackenzie would later brand the Family Compact. Ridout's father, Thomas Ridout (politician), Thomas Ridout, was Upper Canada's Surveyor General. Jarvis's father, William Jarvis (Upper Canada official), William Jarvis, had been appointed Upper Canada's provincial secretary and registrar. Early life and military career Ridout attended the Jarvis Collegiate Institute, District School, the first public school in York (Upper Canada), York, in 1807. During the War of 1812 Ridout enlisted as a midshipman on the ''Royal George''. He was also a ''"confidential clerk"'' to his elder brother Thomas Gibbs Ridout, in the Army's Commissary Department. Duel and death On July 5, 1817, Ridout was working at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Ridout
Alan Ridout (9 December 1934 – 19 March 1996) was a British composer and teacher. Life Born in West Wickham, Kent, England, Alan Ridout studied briefly at the Guildhall School of Music before commencing four years of study at the Royal College of Music, London with Herbert Howells and Gordon Jacob. He was later taught by Michael Tippett, Peter Racine Fricker, Peter Fricker and (under a Dutch government scholarship) Henk Badings.Miall, Peter.Obituary: Alan Ridout in ''The Independent'', 23 October, 2011 He went on to teach at the Royal College of Music, the University of Birmingham, the University of Cambridge, the University of London, and at The King's School, Canterbury. He also broadcast musical talks on the radio. Alan Ridout lived for much of his life in Canterbury, but after a serious heart attack in 1990 he moved to France, settling in the town of Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Vitré, Brittany, before moving on to Caen at the very end of his life. Music Ridout's styl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matilda Ridout Edgar
Matilda Ridout Edgar (29 September 1844 – 29 September 1910) was a Canadian historian and feminist. She was born Matilda Ridout, became Matilda Edgar by marriage, and became Lady Edgar in 1898 when her husband was knighted. The mother of nine children, she turned to historical research and writing when in her forties. She published three books in her lifetime and was working on a fourth when she died. She was active in a number of Toronto-based societies and in her later years was a strong advocate of women's causes. Early years Matilda Ridout was born in Toronto, Canada, on 29 September 1844, the fifth child and second daughter of Thomas Gibbs Ridout and Matilda Ann Bramley. Her grandfather, Thomas Ridout of Sherborne, Dorset, was surveyor general of Upper Canada from 1810 to 1829. Her father was the first cashier of the Bank of Upper Canada from 1822 until he retired in 1861. Her father died a few months after retiring, and his mother was left with little money to support a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Ridout
Heather Ridout (born 1954, Deniliquin) is an Australian businesswoman who previously served as the Chief Executive of the Australian Industry Group. Born in Deniliquin in south-western NSW, she later attended the University of Sydney. She is a member of several policy-setting and advice-giving groups including Skills Australia. Heather Ridout was also a member of the Henry Tax Review and chaired the Productivity and Prosperity Advisory Panel of the Population Strategy Task Force. Heather Ridout has various other appointments including Director of the Australian Super Trustee Board and the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth. She member of the board of the Climate Change Authority. In her former role with Ai Group, Ridout had a vigorous media presence, appearing on Network 10's ''Meet the Press'' programme, the ABC's ''Lateline'' and '' Q&A'' programmes, and various other radio and television shows. In November 2011, Ridout gave a televised address to the Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudley Ridout
Major-General Sir Dudley Howard Ridout (15 January 1866 – 3 May 1941) was a British soldier of the Royal Engineers. Background He was born in Calcutta, British India to Major Joseph Bramley Ridout and Wilmot Beresford Hayter. His father was a British soldier who served on the Bhutan expedition with the 80th Regiment 1864–5. His father had been on the staff of the Hythe School of Musketry and was the captain of cadets at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario Canada. His grandfather Thomas Gibbs Ridout was deputy assistant commissary general during the War of 1812 and a cashier of the Bank of Canada from 1822 to 1861. Education and career Dudley Ridout graduated at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers as a lieutenant on 30 June 1885. He was promoted captain on 1 October 1894. He served on the staff as an intelligence officer in South Africa during the Second Boer War from 1900 to 1902, af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfrey Ridout
Godfrey Ridout (6 May 1918 in Toronto – 24 November 1984 in Toronto) was a Canadians, Canadian composer, conductor, music educator, and writer. Life and career Ridout was a descendant of Thomas Ridout (politician), Thomas Ridout, the first Surveyor General of Upper Canada during the administration of Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe. He attended University of Toronto with John Beckwith (composer), John Beckwith. During his time at the Toronto University, he was a pupil of Ettore Mazzoleni (conducting), Weldon Kilburn (piano), and Charles Peaker (organ and counterpoint) at its The Royal Conservatory of Music, Conservatory of Music. He then taught on the conservatory faculty from 1940 to 1948. He left there to join the faculty at University of Toronto, Toronto University, where he taught until 1982. Among his notable pupils were Walter Babiak, Walter Buczynski, Hugh Davidson (composer), Hugh Davidson, Alan Detweiler, Ben McPeek, Welford Russell, Alfred Strombergs, and Charl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Percival Ridout
George Percival Ridout (August 21, 1807 – June 28, 1873) was an English-born merchant and politician in Canada West. He represented Toronto in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1851 to 1854 as an independent Conservative. George Ridout built a mansion in Dorset Street in Toronto that quickly became a landmark because of its spacious rooms and extensive out buildings. He lived in the property for ten years before moving. After unsuccessfully being converted into a hotel the house fell into disrepair and became known as a bad place in Toronto. After many issues, including the death of a child in the home, the mansion was torn down in 1887. He was born in Bristol, the son of George Ridout and Mary Ann Wright, and came to Philadelphia with his parents in 1820. With his brother Joseph Davis, Ridout was employed with English iron and hardware merchants Tarratt's. In 1828, he moved to York where he entered the study of law. In 1832, Ridout formed Ridout Brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Ridout
Alexandra Ridout (born 1998) is an English jazz trumpeter. She is known for winning the BBC Young Musician Jazz Award 2016. Early life Ridout began playing the trumpet at the age of nine after also learning guitar, recorder, and piano. She studied at The Purcell School for Young Musicians. At the age of 14, she got into the Junior Department of The Royal Academy of Music on a scholarship. A year later, she also got into the Junior Jazz course at The Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the first Duke of .... Career Ridout won the jazz award for BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2016, where she competed against her brother Tom and three other jazz musicians. Ridout leads her own band, ''The Alexandra Ridout Quintet'', and is also a member of ''The Ridouts'', a fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Ridout
Ronald Joseph Ridout (23 July 1916 – 5 December 1994)''Contemporary Authors Online'' (2003) Detroit, Gale was a prolific English writer of school textbooks. His textbooks include the hugely successful series ''English Today''. Biography Ronald Ridout was born in Farnham, Surrey, on 23 July 1916. He was the son of Gilbert Harry Ridout, a schoolmaster, and Ethel Mary ''née'' Phillips. He married Betty Elsie Dolley on 10 February 1940, and had three children, Jessica, Simon and Veronica. He worked as a bank clerk at the National Provincial Bank, Alton, Hampshire, from 1933 to 1935 and received his B.A. degree with honours from Oxford University in 1939. From 1939 to 1950 he worked as a teacher at schools in Bolton, Luton, Nuneaton, Portsmouth, Shrewsbury and Woking. He was dissatisfied with the available material for the teaching of English at the time that he started his teaching career, and as a result developed the ''English Today'' series of textbooks in the 1940s. He worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Ridout
Louis Ridout is an English international indoor and outdoor bowls player. Bowls career In 2015 he won the pairs bronze medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships. In 2016 he won the National title in the Pairs with Sam Tolchard. The bowler who represents Devon represented England during the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. He was selected as part of the English team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland where he claimed a bronze medal in the Fours with David Bolt, Jamie Chestney and Sam Tolchard. He was crowned National singles champion in August 2018 after defeating Andrew Squire 21–16 in the final. He subsequently became the British singles champion after winning the British Isles Bowls Championships the following year. He bowls for Kings BC, who have won the Top Club championship four years running from 2016–2019. In 2022, he competed in the men's triples and the men's fours at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. The team of Ridout, Nick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Ridout (other) (1792–1861), Canadian banker
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Thomas Ridout may refer to: * Thomas Ridout (architect) (1828–1905), Canadian architect and railway engineer * Thomas Ridout (politician) (1754–1829), Canadian politician * Thomas Gibbs Ridout Thomas Gibbs Ridout was a member of the small circle of privileged insiders who Lieutenant Governors of Upper Canada appointed to hold administrative posts and sinecures. His father, Thomas Ridout, was Surveyor General of Upper Canada. Initia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert C
Herbert may refer to: People Individuals * Herbert (musician), a pseudonym of Matthew Herbert Name * Herbert (given name) * Herbert (surname) Places Antarctica * Herbert Mountains, Coats Land * Herbert Sound, Graham Land Australia * Herbert, Northern Territory, a rural locality * Herbert, South Australia. former government town * Division of Herbert, an electoral district in Queensland * Herbert River, a river in Queensland * County of Herbert, a cadastral unit in South Australia Canada * Herbert, Saskatchewan, Canada, a town * Herbert Road, St. Albert, Canada New Zealand * Herbert, New Zealand, a town * Mount Herbert (New Zealand) United States * Herbert, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Herbert, Michigan, a former settlement * Herbert Creek, a stream in South Dakota * Herbert Island, Alaska Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Herbert (Disney character) * Herbert Pocket Great Expectations, (''Great Expectations'' character), Pip's close friend and ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
