Career
Ridgeway was born on 18 August 1848 in Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland. On 22 November 1879, he was 31 years old, and a captain in the Bengal Staff Corps, 44th Gurkha Rifles (later 1/8th Gurkha Rifles), British Indian Army, during the Naga Hills Expedition. While doing this he was wounded severely in the right shoulder.
He died at the age of 76 in Harrogate, Yorkshire on 11 October 1924.
