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'''Andrew Riccard''', Knt (d. 1672)

Andrew Riccard, knighted in 1662, Alderman of London, Sheriff of London 1651, Governor of the East India Company, the Levant Company, and the Turkey Company.

He had a daughter Christiana (aka Christian) Riccard, his only child, baptised 19 Mar 1638/9 at St Olave's, London.  She married three times: firstly John Gayer of Stoke Pogis, son of the Lord Mayor and Sheriff John Gayer by his wife Katherine Hopkins.  This first husband died without issue in 1657.

Christian married secondly to Henry Rich, Lord Kensington on 14 Feb 1659 at Kensington.  He was the son of Robert Rich, 5th Earl of Warwick and 2nd Earl of Holland.  Henry Rich died 15 Apr 1659.

Christian married thirdly, by 1661, to John Berkeley of Bruton, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stretton (created 1658), who was 30 years her senior.  They had at least three children: Charles, John and William, each in their turn Lord Berkeley of Stratton, the elder two died without issue.

Sir Andrew Riccard possessed the advowson of St Olave's, but at his death bequethed it to the parish.

Sir Andrew Riccard has a Monument at St Olave's erected after his death by members of the Turkey Company showing that he died 6 Sep 1672 "aged 68".  Sir Andrew Riccard also happens to be in the ancestry of the author Lord Byron.

==Sources==
*[http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/collage/app;jsessionid=13CA4245FF5D00DF79D5837C7538D54B?service=external/Item&sp=Zriccard&sp=4959&sp=X Drawing of his brass with armorial bearings]
*[http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/collage/app?service=external/Item&sp=Zriccard&sp=4960&sp=X His monumental inscription] stating his death date and age
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=3jouAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=%22sir+andrew+riccard%22&source=web&ots=3ODqLqSvZ6&sig=WmQZuH56_ZZcClAghqPdLrQonq4 "London City Churches"], by A. E. Daniel
*[http://www.thepeerage.com/p13076.htm#i130755 "Andrew Riccard"] on ThePeerage.com stating that CP II thinks his wife's name was Katherine
*[http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/england/Cornwall/visitations/index.html Vis Cornwall, pg 172 and 173, "Gayer of Trenbrace"] NOTE: Once you get to this URL, you MUST select the exact page, from a list at the bottom of that page.  Pg 173 shows Christina as the only child of Andrew.
*[http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00214524&tree=LEO "Andrew Riccard"] on Genealogics
*[http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=6892&path=Beal+-+Browell.Dictionary+Of+National+Biography.BE.361&sid=&gskw=Record+Riccard&cr=1
DNB, "Berkeley, John, first Baron Berkeley of Stratton (d 1678)"] stating : "His wife who is politely described in his epitaph as 'a young lady of a large dowry and yet larger graces and virtues,' can hardly have been very young when he married her, as she had already been married first to Sir John Geare, and subsequently (14 Feb 1659) to Henry Rich, Lord Kensington.  Her maiden name was Christian or Christiana Riccard, her father being Sir Andrew Riccard, a wealthy London merchant, largely interested in the East India Company"