Jasper Nicholas Ridley

Sir Jasper Nicholas Ridley KCVO OBE (6 January 1887 – 1 October 1951) was a British barrister, banker, and agriculturalist. He was also chairman of the Trustees of the Tate Gallery and a Trustee of the British Museum and of the National Gallery.

The second son of Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley, Home Secretary in Lord Salisbury's government, by his marriage to Mary Georgiana Marjoribanks, a daughter of Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth, Ridley was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, proceeding to MA in 1908.

In early life, Ridley twice stood for parliament as a Unionist: at the January 1910 election at Morpeth, and at the December 1910 election at Newcastle. He was called to the bar in 1912. During the Great War of 1914–1918, he served with the Northumberland Hussars Yeomanry, was mentioned in despatches, appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and became Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General. After the war he was Secretary of the Ministry of Labour's Training Grants Committee from 1919 to 1920.

Entering the banking profession, Ridley rose to become chairman of Coutts & Co. and of the National Provincial Bank. He was also President of the London Life Association and a director of the Standard Bank of South Africa and of the Bank of British West Africa.

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