John Witherston Rickards (22 January 1844 – 21 June 1921), priest, founded the Anglican Parish of St Cyprian the Martyr at New Rush, Kimberley, on the South African Diamond Fields, in 1871. He served a curacy at St Cyprian's, Marylebone, London, and following his stint in South Africa he was Vicar of Dixton, at St Peter's, in Monmouthshire, from 1886 until his death in 1921.