RIVINGTON, Christopher Thurston (1920-2018)

[G. Willis]

Announcement here: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/227140/rivington

I'm not sure if there's any link to the Rivingtons of Appleby treated in BLG 1921, but this lineage is given in the Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 3, 1895, which I think allows for this family to be noteworthy.

Christopher Thurston Rivington was educ. Radley and Trinity Coll., Cantab. (M.A.), served as a Lt R.N.V.R. 1941-6, and was Master of the Stationers' Company in 1983, having been a liveryman since 1942. He married 1950, Irene Anne Halcro, dau. of C. W. Hough, and had issue as the obituary lists. He appears in a 2011 list of Applications for the Freedom of the City of London, as 'citizen and stationer and newspaper maker'.

His father was Reginald Thurston Rivington (1881-1971), educ. Rugby, Trinity Coll., Cantab. (B.A. 1903, LL.B. 1904, M.A. 1910), solicitor (adm. 1907; partner, Rivington and Son, 1, Fenchurch Buildings, E.C.3), clerk of The Stationers' Company from 1916-1957. He m. 1912, Nora (1878-1967), dau. of Rev. Gordon Sedgwick (1840-1921), M.A., vicar of Sherborne, Warwicks., hon. canon of Coventry.

R. T. Rivington s. of Thurston Rivington (1849-1929), of 14, West Hill, St Leonards-on-Sea, E. Sussex, formerly of The Butts, Warwick, vicar of St Nicholas's, Warwick, by his wife (m. 1877) Margaret Anne (1853-), dau. of Rev. Reginald Edward Copleston (1811-1878), rector of Barnes, Surrey.

Thurston Rivington s. of William Rivington (1808-1888), of 29, Phillimore Gardens, Kensington, formerly of Hampstead Heath, a master printer employing 71 men and 64 boys; he had issue with his first wife, Susan Heighton (1811-1837), dau. of Thomas Steel, of London, and married 2nd, 1839, Jane, dau. of John Hillman, of London, by whom he had issue including Thurston Rivington.

His father was Charles Rivington (1754-1831), of King's Road, Gray's Inn, who m. Jane (1768-1829), dau. of Daniel Curling.

The pedigree begins with his father, John Rivington, of London, who m. Elizabeth Miller, dau. of Robert Gosling and sister of Sir Francis Gosling, of London, alderman and banker.

Perhaps a little tangential, but I thought the family's presence in the Visitation volumes and their armigerous status (for the record, the blazon held at the College of Arms: Argent, a boar's head couped sable, transfixed by a sword in pale point downwards proper, pomel (sic) and hilt or, in chief two falcons close proper belled gold. Crest- In a crown vallary or a mount vert, thereon a falcon close as in the arms, holding in the beak a hawk's lure reflexed over the back azure. Motto- Deum timete et regem favete.

[G. Willis]

An interesting document on the Rivington family which extends the pedigree considerably and gives insight into their printing, bookselling and publishing business(es), showing also other members of the family who were Master of the Stationers' Company:

http://thecheaprepository.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/69203808/Rivington%20family_DNB.docx

[G. Willis]

A few connections:

Rev. Reginald Edward Copleston's son, Rev. Reginald Stephen Copleston, D.D., Bishop of Calcutta (1845-1925- details on Wikipedia) married Edith, dau. of Richard Chenevix Trench, Archbishop of Dublin (see Wikipedia), who had married his cousin, Frances Mary Trench; her brother was Frederick Mason Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown (nephew of the 1st Baron Ashtown).

Another of Rev. R. E. Copleston's sons, Frederick Selwyn Copleston (1850-1935), of the Bengal Civil Service, m. 1883, Elizabeth Maria Pomeroy, dau. of Henry FitzGeorge Pomeroy Colley, s. of Cmdr Hon. George Francis Pomeroy Colley (1797-1879), R.N., of Ferney, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, s. of John Pomeroy, 4th Viscount Harberton. Henry FitzGeorge Pomeroy Colley's wife Elizabeth Isabella was dau. of Rev. Hon. William Wingfield, vicar of Abbeyleix, Co. Laois, s. of Richard Wingfield, 4th Viscount Powerscourt.

Yet another of Rev. R. E. Copleston's sons, Rev. Ernest Arthur Copleston (1855-1933), Bishop of Colombo, m. 1890, Eveline Charlotte, dau. of Rev. Henry Fox-Strangways (1828-1894), rector of Silverton, Cullompton, Devon (by his wife Charlotte Chester Copleston, dau. of Francis Copleston, of the Madras Civil Service, s. of Rev. John Gaius Copleston, vicar of Offwell, Devon; Francis was thus brother of Rev. Reginald Edward Copleston, of whom above). Rev. Henry Fox-Strangways was son of another Rev. Henry Fox-Strangways (1793-1860), rector of Rewe, Devon. His father was Rev. Hon. Charles Redlynch Fox-Strangways (1761-1836), rector of Rewe, s. of Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester.