Ripon
Ripon names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Ripon GEORGE FREDERICK SAMUEL ROBINSON, FIRST MAR- QUIS OF
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE FREDERICK SAMUEL ROBINSON, FIRST MAR- QUIS OF, a British statesman and administrator, born in 1827. He was the son of the first Earl of Ripon. He served in several diplomatic missions, but later became actively interested in the Christian Socialist movement. From 1853 to 1867 he was a Liberal member of the House of Commons for Huddersfield, and from 1857 to 1859, from West Yorkshire. In the latter year he entered the House of Lords, becoming Undersecretary for War. He was also successively Secretary for India, Secretary for War and Privy Councilor, and Secretary of State for India. He served as chairman of the joint high commission on the Alabama Claims in 1871. In 1873 he resigned his position in the cabinet and in the following year joined the Roman Catholic Church. For the six years following he was engaged chiefly in religious work. In 1880 he was appointed Gladstone by Governor-General of India. In his administration he introduced many reforms, chiefly relating to added political freedom of the governed peoples. He was First Lord of the Admiralty in 1886, Colonial Secretary in 1892, and Lord Privy Seal from 1905 to 1908. He died in 1909. He was made a Marquis in 1871.
Ripon a city in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, 22 miles N. W. of York. It is the seat of a bishopric, with notable cathedral and other ecclesiastical buildings. The market-place has a high obelisk and there is an Hiberno-Saxon crypt dating from the missionary period of the 7th century. The industries include iron founding, machine making and malting. The Irish missionaries in Northumbria established there one of the earliest monastic establishments in England, organized in 678 into a see. Pop. about 8,500.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote in 1921 that Ripon is "a city in the West Riding of Yorkshire" and "the seat of a bishopric"; both statements have since lapsed. The West Riding was abolished in the local government reorganisation of 1974 and Ripon now sits in North Yorkshire, while in 2014 the diocese of Ripon was absorbed into the new diocese of Leeds, leaving the cathedral without a diocesan bishop of its own and the population risen to roughly 17,000. The famous crypt is still there, though it is now credited to Wilfrid, who took the monastery over from the Irish-trained monks of Melrose rather than founding it with them. The first Marquess's entry stands, save that the marquessate itself died out when his son, the second Marquess, left no heir.
Written for this edition, 2026.