Horace Ricardo

Colonel Horace Ricardo, CVO (28 September 1850 – 11 April 1935) was a British Army officer and land owner.

Biography Ricardo was born London, the son of Percy Ricardo (1820–1892) and his wife, Matilda Mawdesley Hensley (1826–1880), daughter of John Isaac Hensley of Holborn in Middlesex. He was the brother of Colonel Francis Ricardo (1852–1924), Amy Gordon-Lennox, Countess of March (1847–1879) and Ellen Maud, Lady Bruce, of Downhill (1848–1924). He was educated at Eton College.

Ricardo was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards as an ensign and lieutenant (by purchase) on 17 April 1869, and was promoted to captain on 17 May 1871. He served as adjutant of the 3rd battalion from 11 March 1874 to 1877. and took part in the coronation of the new king in August 1902. He was placed on half-pay on 8 November 1904, and resigned from the army on 28 September 1907.

He was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) by King Edward VII in March 1901, following his recent accession.

He owned Bramley Park in Guildford, Surrey, was a Justice of the peace for the county, and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the county on 15 June 1906.

He died at Bramley Park on 11 April 1935.

Family Ricardo married in 1877 Henrietta Goulburn, daughter of Colonel E. Goulburn, also of the Grenadier Guards. They had three daughters, including Winifred Maud Ricardo who married in 1904 Major-General Sir Charles Edward Corkran (1872–1939).