Author: RIDGWAY, Richard B.
Biography:
RIDGWAY, Robert Burnet (1796-1869: ancestry.co.uk)
It is not known if Ridgway contributed any of the verse to The Infant Teacher’s Assistant which he published with Thomas Bilby (q.v.). No other publications by him have been located. He was baptised in Writtle, Essex, on 13 Dec. 1796, the son of Richard Ridgway and his wife Louisa Butler who had married in St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, on 21 Jan. 1793. He married Jane Richards in St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch, London, on 18 Apr. 1816; one daughter, Louisa, was born in Milcham, Surrey, on 12 Mar. 1817. (In 1837 her birth was recorded in the Protestant Dissenters’ birth registry.) At the time of his publication with Bilby he was master of the infant school in Hart Street, Long Acre, London, where he taught children and trained teachers according to the precepts laid out in The Infant Teacher’s Assistant. In 1832 he moved to a school in Chichester Place, Gray’s Inn Road, London, and taught there until he retired in 1848. The 1851 Census records him living with Jane and a granddaughter at 1 John Street, Clerkenwell; by 1861 they had moved to 19 Penton Street. He died in 1869 but no public record or newspaper announcement has been found. (ancestry.co.uk 5 Sept. 2023; Patriot 6 Nov. 1848) SR
Other Names:
- R. B. Ridgway