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Ridley, Cheshire

The River Weaver runs north–south through the west of the civil parish and the River Gowy runs east–west along part of its northern border.

Ridley's Family Markets

Two years later, the couple sold the Payson store and begin a partnership to build and operate a Food 4 Less store in Provo, Utah.


A. ridleyi

Amphisbaena ridleyi, the Ridley's worm lizard or the Noronha worm lizard, a reptile species found in Brazil

Andrew Grimwade

Andrew Grimwade is the son of Frederick Sheppard Grimwade, great-grandson of Frederick Sheppard Grimwade (founder of the Grimwade family fortune in Australia), and great-great-grandson of Edward Grimwade of Grimwade & Ridley & Company, London.

Arnold Ridley

After being stranded for an evening at Mangotsfield railway station, near Bristol, Ridley was inspired to write the play, The Ghost Train (1923).

Bill Loughery

William Gordon Ridley "Bill" Loughery (1 November 1907 in Belfast, Ireland – 1 August 1977 in Abbey Dore, Herefordshire, England) was an Irish cricketer.

Bill Meyer Stadium

The stadium is now called Neal Ridley/Todd Helton Field and is used as a venue for amateur baseball games.

Bridgeman baronets

The Bridgeman Baronetcy, of Ridley in the County of Chester, was created on 12 November 1773 for Orlando Bridgeman, Member of Parliament for Horsham and younger son of the 1st Baronet, of the Great Lever creation.

Dominic Dromgoole

During this time, he premiered 65 new plays including early works by Billy Roche, Philip Ridley, Catherine Johnson, Sebastian Barry, Jonathan Harvey, Helen Edmundson, Simon Bent, Naomi Wallace, Irvine Welsh, David Harrower, Samuel Adamson and Conor McPherson.

Dudley Joel

Part of the wealthy and prominent Joel family, he was the son of businessman Solomon Barnato Joel and his wife Ellen (Nellie) Ridley and was married to Esme Oldham.

Eric Garcia

Warner Brothers had already purchased the film rights and signed Ridley Scott as the director, with Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell and Alison Lohman as the film's stars.

Faulconer County

Faulconer County is the historical home of the Faulconer family, who in 1861 are headed by Washington Faulconer, his wife Miriam and their children Adam Faulconer and Anna, who is engaged to Ethan Ridley.

Garson Yu

Since the company’s inception, Garson has collaborated with many filmmakers for his title design work including Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, John Woo, Sydney Pollack, and Ridley and Tony Scott.

Giles Ridley

With the bat, Ridley scored 6 unbeaten runs in the Minor Counties first-innings, while in their second-innings he scored 30 runs, before being dismissed by John Inverarity.

Harrison Ridley Jr.

In his lifetime Ridley received more than 80 awards, including recognition from the Philadelphia City Hall and the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and an honorary Doctorate in Music from Villanova University (conferred in May, 2008).

Henry Christmas

He edited works including Samuel Pegge's ‘Anecdotes of the English Language’ (1844), the ‘Works of Bishop Ridley’ (1841), and the ‘Select Works of Bishop Bale’ (1849), the last two for the Parker Society.

Hugo de Vries

Ridley, Matt, The Agile Gene, 2003, ISBN 0-06-000679-X, pp 231–2.

James Alison

Michael Alison, who, after leaving Oxford University, had spent some time studying theology at Ridley Hall, and had gone on to become a prominent Conservative Member of Parliament (1964–1997) and Second Church Estates Commissioner (1987-1997).

James Ridley

Ridley wrote two novels, The History of James Lovegrove, Esquire (1761) and The Schemer, or the Universal Satirist, by that Great Philosopher Helter van Scelter (1763); but he is mainly remembered for his Oriental pastiche Tales of the Genii, a set of stories based on those of the Arabian Nights.

John Palmer, 4th Earl of Selborne

The son of Captain William Palmer, Viscount Wolmer, in turn son of Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne, and the Honourable Grace Ridley, Lord Selborne succeeded to his grandfather's titles in 1971.

John Ridley Stroop

Ridley Stroop, was an American psychologist whose research in cognition and interference continues to be considered by some as the gold standard in attentional studies and profound enough to continue to be cited for relevance into the 21st century.

Kayea ferruginea

The distribution of this species has been recorded (Ridley, 1922) in Eastern Johore, Sungei Endau southwards, Pahang, Ayer Etam, Kelantan, Temangan and far ranging Andamans.

Keith Coleman Racing

Carl Long drove the car beginning at the Federated Auto Parts 300 and had a best finish of 34th before he was released, and Brad Keselowski finished the season with the team with Ridley Motorcycles coming on board as sponsor.

Kung Fu High School

The book explores the mind of a young girl named Jen, who along with her brother Cue, and legendary martial artist cousin, Jimmy Chang, attend Kung Fu High School, where a powerful drug kingpin named Ridley pits all students against each other in order to maintain control over his corrupt business he runs using the students he controls.

However due to the notorious Ridley's drug trafficking through the school, it has become a run down war zone for both his workers, and those who despise him.

Lancelot Ridley

On Mary's accession Ridley was proceeded against as a married clergyman.

Larry Ridley

Ridley is a recipient of the MidAtlantic Arts Foundation’s “Living Legacy Jazz Award”, an 1998 inductee the International Association for Jazz Education Hall of Fame (IAJE), an inductee of the Downbeat Magazine Jazz Education Hall of Fame, a recipient of the Benny Golson Jazz Award from Howard University, and was honored by a Juneteenth 2006 Proclamation Award from the New York City Council.

Ridley served as chairman of the Jazz Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and was the organization's National Coordinator of the "Jazz Artists in Schools" Program for five years (1978–1982).

Mangotsfield railway station

The station was the inspiration behind Arnold Ridley's play The Ghost Train after Ridley found himself stranded there one evening.

Matthew Ridley Corbet

He was born on 20 May 1850 at South Willingham, Lincolnshire, was son of the Rev. Andrew Corbet and Marianne Ridley.

Muckinipattis Creek

Further downstream it flows under the former A&P parking lot in Secane before forming the border of Darby and Ridley townships.

Nina Axelrod

In 1981, Axelrod read for the Rachael character of Ridley Scott's science fiction noir, Blade Runner (1982), and is featured on a screen test of the 2007 DVD release of the Final Cut release, Disc 4 of "Blade Runner".

Paul Ridley

When the England football team under manager Graham Taylor flopped at Euro ’92, Ridley capitalised on the infamous SWEDES 2 TURNIPS 1 headline with a lengthy campaign to get ‘Turnip’ Taylor sacked.

Ridley Bridge

Ridley Bridge is a stone arch road bridge near Ridley Hall in Northumberland.

Ridley Middle School

Ridley Middle School is located at Free and Dupont streets in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania 19078.

Ridley Park, Pennsylvania

John Morton, signer of the American Declaration of Independence, was born and raised in a log cabin adjacent to East Ridley Avenue.

Ridley Railway Bridge

Ridley Railway Bridge is a railway bridge carrying the railway between Newcastle upon Tyne and Carlisle across the River South Tyne near Ridley Hall in Northumberland.

Roy Ridley

Dorothy L. Sayers based the physical description of her fictional character Lord Peter Wimsey on that of Ridley after seeing him read his Newdigate Prize-winning poem "Oxford" at the Encaenia ceremony in July 1913.

Ruth Manning-Sanders

Others who illustrated her fairy-tale titles included Victor Ambrus, Scoular Anderson, Eileen Armitage, Raymond Briggs, Donald Chaffin, Brian Froud, Lynette Hemmant, C. Walter Hodges, J. Hodgson, Annette Macarthur-Onslow, Constance Marshall, Kilmeny Niland, William Papas, Trevor Ridley, Jacqueline Rizvi, Leon Shtainmets, William Stobbs, and Astrid Walford.

Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion

Sadak is a fictional character in a story in James Ridley's Tales of the Genii (two volumes, 1764); it is a faux-Oriental tale allegedly from a Persian manuscript, but actually the work of Ridley himself.

Samus Aran

In Super Metroid, just after giving the hatchling to a Federation research station, Samus tracks the hatchling (stolen by Ridley) to a newly rebuilt Space Pirate base on Zebes.

Selsdon Group

Nicholas Ridley closed his keynote speech at that meeting by citing the "Ten Cannots" of William J. H. Boetcker, adding that they "could well become the guiding principle of the Selsdon Group".

Themes in Blade Runner

"That was the main area of contention between Ridley and myself at the time," Ford told interviewer Jonathan Ross during a BBC1 Hollywood Greats segment.

Zeuxine exilis

Zeuxine exilis, commonly known as Ridley’s Ground Orchid or Ridley’s Jewel Orchid, is a terrestrial orchid belonging to the subfamily Orchidoideae.


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