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George Kettilby Rickards

ジョージ・ケッティルビー・リカード

Jōji Kettilbī Rikādo

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1812-01-24 (London)
Died
1889-09-23 (Hawkley Hurst, Hampshire) age 77
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Residence History
London → Ripley, Surrey → Fyfield House, Oxford

Career

Occupations
political economist, barrister, professor
Active Years
1829-1889
Affiliations
Oxford Union, Inner Temple, Canterbury Association

Education

Westminster School
Period: 1823-1824
Country: United Kingdom
Admitted 1823, left 1824 for Eton
Eton College
Period: 1824-
Country: United Kingdom
Balliol College, Oxford
classics
Degree: B.A.
Period: 1829-
Year of Graduation: 1833
Country: United Kingdom
President of Oxford Union, scholar of Trinity College
Queen's College, Oxford
Degree: M.A.
Period: 1836-1843
Year of Graduation: 1836
Country: United Kingdom
fellow

Awards

Newdigate Prize
1830
Work: African Desert
Category:
Organization: University of Oxford
Result: 受賞
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
1882
Organization: British Government
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Remarks on the Laws relating to Attempts against the Person of the Sovereign

1842 Legal

Remarks on laws relating to attempts against the sovereign.

The Financial Policy of War

1855 Political Economy

Financial policy during war.

The House of Commons, its Struggles and Triumphs: a Lecture

1856 Politics

Lecture on the House of Commons.

Æneid, books i–vi

1871 Poetry Translation

Translation of Virgil's Aeneid books i-vi in blank verse.

Æneid, book xi

1872 Poetry Translation

Translation of Virgil's Aeneid book xi in blank verse.

Bibliography

  • Remarks on the Laws relating to Attempts against the Person of the Sovereign, 1842
  • The Financial Policy of War, 1855
  • The House of Commons, its Struggles and Triumphs: a Lecture, 1856
  • Æneid bks. i–vi, 1871
  • Æneid bk. xi, 1872
  • Church Finance (essay), 1874
  • Statutes at Large (editor), 1857-

Legacy

English political economist, Oxford professor, barrister. Member of Canterbury Association; Mount Richards in New Zealand named after him.

In Popular Culture

  • Mount Richards in New Zealand named after him

Trivia

  • President of the Oxford Union.
  • Mount Richards in New Zealand named by surveyor Joseph Thomas in 1849.