Sir George Kettilby Rickards (24 January 1812 – 23 September 1889) was a political economist in England.
[2] In 1849, the chief surveyor of the Canterbury Association, Joseph Thomas, named Mount Richards in New Zealand after him.
[2][3] He was elected Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford in 1851, and he held the chair until 1857.
He made little mark in a professorial capacity, but published three general lectures on his subject in a volume in 1852, and a course on population and labour in 1854.
John Henry George Lefroy of Ewshott House, Hampshire, who died in 1859; and, secondly, in 1861, to Julia Cassandra (d. 1884), daughter of the Rev.
Rickards was the author of: He translated into blank verse Virgil's ‘Æneid,’ bks.