Sir Jasper Nicholas Ridley KCVO OBE (6 January 1887 – 1 October 1951) was a British barrister, banker, and agriculturalist.
Mary Georgiana Marjoribanks, a daughter of Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth, and Isabella Weir Hogg,[1] Ridley was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, proceeding MA in 1908.
During the Great War of 1914–1918, he served with the Northumberland Hussars Yeomanry,[3] was mentioned in despatches, appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and became Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General.
[2][5] Jasper Ridley married on 28 April 1911 in London Countess Nathalie Louise von Benckendorff (20 May 1886 – 14 March 1968; German: Natalie Luise Gräfin von Benckendorff), daughter of Count Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian Ambassador to the Court of St James's between 1903 and 1917, and they had four sons and one daughter: Their son Jasper was the father of the economist Adam Ridley.
[1] At the time of Ridley's death his addresses were given in Who's Who as 4 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London W1, and Mockbeggars, Claydon, Suffolk.