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went to Paris in 1820. He was almost immediately admitted as an interne and was attached successively to the Hotel Dieu, under Dupuytren, and to La Pitié, under Lisfranc. In March, 1826, he took the degree of Doctor, and practised at Olivet, near Orleans, and Croüy-sur-Ourcq, after which he returned to Paris, delivered a course of lectures on surgical operations, and was appointed in 1831 Surgeon-in-Chief to the Hôpital des Vénériens of the South, which position he held till Oct., 1860, when he retired. This appointment secured for Dr. Ricord the special reputation which he enjoys for his knowledge and treatment of that class of diseases to which it relates. Dr. Ricord discovered a cure for varicocele, &c., for which he received, in 1842, the Monthyon prize. He has been a member of the Imperial Academy (section of surgical pathology) since 1850, and is attached as Consulting Surgeon to the Dispensary of Public Health. By decree, July 28, 1862, he was appointed Physician in Ordinary to Prince Napoleon; and on Oct. 26. 1869, he was nominated Consulting Surgeon to the Emperor, whom he had assiduously attended during his recent illness, and who, in recognition of the services thus rendered, presented him with a snuff-box with 20,000 francs. He was promoted to the rank of Commander of the Legion of Honour, Aug. 12, 1860, and has been decorated with numerous foreign orders. Amongst his various works may be named "De l'Emploi du Speculum," published in 1833; "De la Blennorrhagie de la Femme," in 1834; "Emploi de l'Onguent Mercuriel dans le Traitement de l'Érésipèle," in 1836; "Monographie du Chancre," in 1837; "Traité des Maladies Vénériennes," in 1838; " De l'Ophthalmie Blennorrhagique," in 1842; "Clinique Iconographique de l'Hôpital des Vénériens," 1842-1851; and "De la Syphilisation et de la Contagion des Accidents Secondaires," in 1853; in addition to a large number of mémoires, researches, communications, &c., inserted for the most part in the Mémoires et Bulletins de l'Académie de Médecine.
RIDDELL, Mrs. Charlotte Eliza Lawson, is the youngest child of James Cowan, of Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim. She is married to J. H. Riddell, Esq., a civil engineer, by whose initials she is generally known. Mrs. Riddell is the author of many popular novels, including "Too Much Alone," "City and Suburbs," "George Geith," "A Life's Assize," "Mortomley's Estate," 1874; "Above Suspicion," 1875; "Her Mother's Darling," 1877; "The Senior Partner," 1882; "Daisies and Buttercups," 1882; "The Prince of Wales's Garden Party, and other Stories," 1882; and "A Struggle for Fame," 1883.
RIDLEY, The Right Rev. William, D.D., was a missionary in connection with the Church Missionary Society in Peshawur and Afghanistan from 1866 to 1869, when he was appointed chaplain of the English Church in the Kreuz Strass, Dresden. The latter apointment he resigned in 1872, on being presented to the vicarage of Shelley, near Huddersfield. He was vicar of Mold Green, 1873-74; and vicar of St. Paul's, Huddersfield, from 1874 to 1879, when he was nominated to the new bishopric of Caledonia, in British Columbia.
RIGG, The Rev. James Harrison, D.D., was born in 1821, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, being son of the Rev. John Rigg, a Wesleyan minister, who was famous in his day. He received his education at Old Kingswood school, where he was afterwards a teacher, and in 1845 he entered the Wesleyan ministry. He was one of the leading writers for the Biblical Review (1846-49), and at the time of thecontroversy in Methodism (1849)