Background
Ricketts was the son of the Review Richard Ernest Ricketts, sometime Vicar of Crambe, North Yorkshire and his wife Mabel Rose Williams.
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Clement Ricketts
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Keble College.
Career
He was educated at The King"s School, Canterbury and Keble College, Oxford. After ordination he became a curate at Salisbury Street Martin until 1912 when he became Chaplain of Bishop"s College, Cheshunt. In 1914 he went to Ceylon, where he was Vicar of All Angels Colombo until 1923.
On his return he was Diocesan and Domestic Chaplain to his father-in-law George Eden.
He became vicar of Holy Trinity, Weymouth in 1924 and was Rural Dean of Weymouth until 1927. From 1937 to 1945 he was Canon Residentiary and Missionary of Gloucester Cathedral.
He became Bishop of Dunwich in June 1945 and during his nine years of Episcopate he held the livings of Badingham and Dennington. In retirement from 1955 to 1961, he lived at Madehurst where he served as curate-in-charge.
He died at the age of 81.
