d the British South
Africa Company, 1889. Premier of Cape Colony, 1890-1896. Left the
greater part of his fortune for the establishment of scholarships at
Oxford University, open to university students in each of the British
colonies, the United States, and Germany. =Index=: =Md= Letter from, to
Macdonald suggesting Imperial preferential trade, 343; makes same
suggestion to Sir Henry Parkes of Australia, 343. =Bib.=: Hensman,
_Cecil Rhodes: a Study of a Career_; Scholz, _Oxford and the Rhodes
Scholarships_.

=Riall, Sir Phineas.= Entered the army, 1794; lieutenant-colonel, 1806;
saw service in the West Indies. In 1813 attained the rank of
major-general and ordered to Canada. Took part in the contest on the
Niagara frontier; in command of the British troops at the battle of
Chippawa. Appointed governor of Grenada, 1816; lieutenant-general, 1825;
knighted, 1833; general, 1841. Died at Paris, 1851. =Bib.=: Morgan,
_Cel. Can._; Lucas, _Canadian War of 1812_.

=Rice, Spring.= _See_ Monteagle, Lord.

=Richard, Father.= =Ch= Jesuit, in charge of mission at Miscou and
afterwards at Chedabucto, 235, 237.

=Richards, Sir William Buell= (1815-1889). Born in Brockville, Ontario.
Studied law and called to the bar of Upper Canada, 1837. Elected a
member of the Upper Canada Assembly, 1848; appointed to the Executive
Council, 1851; Q.C., 1850; puisne judge of the Court of Common Pleas,
1853; chief-justice of that Court, 1863; chief-justice of Ontario, 1868;
arbitrator for Ontario on the commission to delimit the north-western
boundary of the province, 1874; chief-justice of the Supreme Court of
Canada, 1875; knighted, 1878; awarded the confederation medal, 1885.
=Index=: =E= Returned in 1848, 50; attorney-general of Upper Canada, in
Hincks-Morin ministry, 113; elevated to the bench, 126; first
chief-justice of Supreme Court of Canada, 128. =Bib.=: Dent, _Can. Por._

=Richardson, James= (1791-1875). Entered the provincial marine, 1809,
and served through the War of 1812. Entered the ministry of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, 1824. Became editor of the _Christian
Guardian_, 1832, and secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society,
1837. Consecrated bishop, 1858. =Index=: =B= Asked to enter religious
controversy in Upper Canada, 68; elected editor of _Christian Guardian_,
94; in the internal troubles among the Methodists, 105. =Bib.=: Webster,
_Life of Rev. James Richardson_; Dent, _Can. Por._

=Richardson, John= (1796-1852).