Description
on Ivory, in uniform and wearing a jewelled miniature of Ghazi-Ud-Din Haidar, King of Oudh (1819-1827)
framed and inscribed in pencil to the rear
Dimensions
Miniature; 85mm x 68mm oval
Footnote
Born in London 5 June 1786, Ricketts was employed with the Bengal Civil Service from 1802 to 1830. He rose through a succession of minor appointments in Calcutta and Bengal to become Deputy Collector at Furruckabad (1811-13), Collector at Shahjahanpur (1813-16), and Collector at Gorrackpur (1816-18). He then moved into the Political Service and was Agent to the Governor-General at Murshidabad (1818-19), Agent to the Governor-General, Bundelkand (1819-22), and then Resident at Lucknow from 7 December 1822 until he took retirement, under something of a cloud owing to exceeding his authority on financial matters, on 1 May 1830. He married twice, firstly Maria Elizabeth Crommelin on 5 July 1811 at Kedgeree, and then Charlotte Elizabeth Ravenscroft on 1 November 1824 at Lucknow.