Painter who was born London around 1865, daughter of Ishmael Rogers, an accountant and stockbroker. She left London with her family in 1886 arriving in Fremantle, Western Australia in 1887 where because their belongings had been lost on a cargo vessel her mother established a private school.
Ridley had trained at the London School of Art and was able to help her mother in the school. She was sister of Cecilia Gibbs and an aunt of May Gibbs. Ridley was a member of the Wilgie Sketching Club and exhibited a painting of irises in their only exhibition in 1890.
In 1892 she married Bernard Walford Ridley, a licensed surveyor who worked in the Great Southern Railway and with the Public Works Department in the south of the state. Their residence was in Stirling Street, Perth. Her daughter was Majorie Ridley and her son was Geoffrey Ridley.
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- Writers:
- Dr Dorothy Erickson
- Date written:
- 2010
- Last updated:
- 2011
