Straker and Timothy Jaques), Collins - Better English (1961) Ginn & Company, (reprinted 2000 by Heinemann ) Book for Me to Read (with Ruth Ainsworth), Series, Purnell Bancroft Children's Dictionary (1983) Collins English Now, Books 1 - 5, Ginn & Company English Today, Books 1 - 5 (1947), Ginn & Company English Workbooks, Books 1 - 8, Ginn & Company English Workbooks for the Caribbean, Books 1 - 8, (1968) Ginn & Company Evans Graded Verse (with Michael Knight) (1978), Evans Bros. Facts of English (with Clifford Witting) (1973) Macmillan Publishers Getting on with Dividing (with Michael Holt and Jon Miller) (1986) Collins Getting on with Mathematics (with Michael Holt and Jon Miller) (1986) Collins Getting on with Multiplying (with Michael Holt and Jon Miller) (1986), Collins Getting on with Spelling, Series, (with Michael Holt and Leon Baxter), (1986), Collins The Life Cycle of Cats (with Michael Holt), illustrated by Tony Payne. Grosset & Dunlap, (1974) The Macmillan Dictionary of English Proverbs Explained (with Clifford Witting), Macmillan Publishers Now I Can Spell (with Michael Holt) (1987) Collins Now I Can Take Away (1985), Collins Now I Can Write, Series, (with Michael Holt) (1987), Collins Picture Words (1975), Collins Ridout pocket spelling dictionary (1979) Ginn & Company Self Help English, Macmillan Publishers - Word Perfect (with George Adamson), Books 1 - 8, (1957–60) Ginn & Company Write in English, Books 1 - 8, (1974) Ginn & Company References External links Ronald Ridout at ISBNdb British textbook writers 1916 births 1994 deaths Booker authors' division People from Farnham Alumni of the University of Oxford