▶Date of birth: (bapt) 27 February 1814        Place of birth:  Eckington, Derbyshire

▶Father: [uncertain]  Mother: [uncertain] 

▶Spouse(s): Eliza Anne, youngest daughter of Major George Warburton White, of the 6th Garrison Battalion Date(s) of marriage:  10 February 1852    Place(s) of marriage: Lower Tooting, Surrey

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican)

▶Lifestory: Richard Riley gained his BD at St Bee’s Theological College, Cumberland; he was ordained Deacon (Chester) in 1851, and Priest (Winchester) in 1852. In 1851 he was licensed Curate of Holy Trinity, Ashton in Makerfield (also Ashton-le-Willows), Greater Manchester, a post he held until 1856; he served as Curate of Mangotsfield with Downend Chapel-of-Ease, Gloucestershire 1856-9, Curate of St Peter’s, Cheltenham 1860-1, when he lived at 21 Clarence Square, Pittville. He married Eliza Anne White in 1852, and the couple had three sons and one daughter.

In 1862 he was appointed Vicar of Hennock-cum-Knighton, Devon, where he remained until his death in 1874. Riley acquired the presentation of Hennock through friends of his wife in Ireland, the Misses Wood.

▶Moved to Pittville from: Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire     Moved from Pittville to: Hennock, Devon

▶Date of death:  4 January 1874    Place of death: Hennock, Devon

▶Date of burial: 10 January 1874        Place of burial: Hennock Parish Church, Devon

▶Notes:        ID: 4363

Contributor(s):  Alan Munden/John Simpson