Ripon

/ ˈrɪpən /

noun

a city in N England, in North Yorkshire: cathedral (12th–16th centuries). Pop: 16 468 (2001)

Put your millions into the Ripon Society, or something like it designed to build a moderate voting base within the GOP.

From Richmond we hastened away over a fine and nearly straight road to Ripon, whose chief attraction is its cathedral.

Ripon is one of the smaller cathedrals and of less importance in historical associations.

He threw the responsibility of the failure of the measure which had been taken to adjust the financial disputes, upon Lord Ripon.

Viscount Melbourne expressed himself to the effect that the Earl of Ripon's motion came like a thunder-clap upon him.

The second reading of the corn-law bill was moved in the house of lords, on the 18th of April, by the Earl of Ripon.

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