Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley

Viscount Ridley in the robes of a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter

Sir Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley, KG, GCVO, TD (born 29 July 1925) is a British nobleman, who served for approximately a decade as Lord Steward of the Household.

The Honourable Matthew Ridley, as he was styled from birth, was educated at Eton College then at Balliol College, Oxford. He served as an aide-de-camp for the Governor of Kenya, before joining the army and reaching the rank of brevet colonel in the Northumberland Hussars (he would become honorary colonel of that unit in 1979). He chaired several companies and societies, before becoming serving as Chancellor of the University of Newcastle from 1988 to 1999 and Lord Steward of the Household in 1989. He was succeeded by the James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn as Lord Steward in 2001. He succeeded his father as Viscount Ridley in 1964, and married Lady Anne Katharine Gabrielle Lumley, daughter of the 13th Earl of Scarbrough, in 1953.

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