Andrew Riccard

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'''Andrew Riccard''', Knt (d. 1672)
 
'''Andrew Riccard''', Knt (d. 1672)
  
Andrew Riccard
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Andrew Riccard, knighted in 1662, Alderman of London, Governor of the East India Company, the Levant Company, and the Turkey Company.
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He had a daughter Christiana (aka Christian) Riccard, his only child, baptised 19 Mar 1638/9 at St Olave's, London.  She married three times: firstly John Gayer of Stoke Pogis, son of the Lord Mayor and Sheriff John Gayer by his wife Katherine Hopkins.  This first husband died without issue in 1657.
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Christian married secondly to Henry Rich, Lord Kensington on 14 Feb 1659 at Kensington.  He was the son of Robert Rich, 5th Earl of Warwick and 2nd Earl of Holland.  Henry Rich died 15 Apr 1659.
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Christian married thirdly, by 1661, to John Berkeley of Bruton, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stretton (created 1658), who was 30 years her senior.  They had at least three children: Charles, John and William, each in their turn Lord Berkeley of Stratton, the elder two died without issue.
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Sir Andrew Riccard has a Monument at St Olave's erected after his death by members of the Turkey Company showing that he died 6 Sep 1672 "aged 68".  Sir Andrew Riccard also happens to be in the ancestry of the author Lord Byron.
  
 
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Revision as of 14:23, 1 January 2008

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