High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Matthew White Ridley (born 7 February 1958, in Northumberland) is an English journalist, science writer, businessman and aristocrat. Ridley was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford where he received a doctorate in zoology before commencing a career in journalism. Ridley worked as the science editor of The Economist from 1984 to 1987 and was then its Washington correspondent from 1987 to 1989 and American editor from 1990 to 1992. He is the son and heir of Viscount Ridley, whose family estate is Blagdon Hall, near Cramlington, Northumberland. Ridley is married to the neuroscientist Anya Hurlbert and lives in northern England; he has a son and a daughter. He is a great grandson of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Ridley was non-executive chairman of Northern Rock from 2004 to 2007, in the period leading up to the bank's near-collapse. He was the first chairman of the International Centre for Life, a science park devoted to life sciences in Newcastle. He is a governor of the Ditchley Foundation, which organises conferences at its stately home in Oxfordshire.
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