RIDDELLS OF CAMIESTON, SCOTLAND.
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ment of Foot, and died at Trinidad in September, 1802, “a man of
ability and soldierly deportment, universally respected."
Gen. Henry-James Riddell (1), second son of Thomas¹ (1) and his
wife, Elizabeth MacLauchlan, was of Beesborough. He entered the navy
at an early age, but left this service for the army, and obtained his first
commission in 1798. His service extended through many years, and was
of a very important character. He served at the siege and capture of
Copenhagen, under Lord Cathcart, in 1807, and afterwards went to the
Peninsula, and was prominent at the crossing of the Bidassoa, with Lord
Lyndoch's Division, in 1813. He afterwards joined the army on the
eastern coast of Spain, and was present at several affairs—at Villa-Franca,
and before Barcelona during the blockade of that fortress, and finally
embarked for Genoa with the Italian Brigade under Count Latorer, and
was senior officer of the Quartermaster-general's department at the surren-
der of the Genoese territory, in 1814. During the Peace, General Riddell
was employed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and was never on half-
pay. In 1847 he was appointed to the command of the forces in Scot-
land, and the governorship of Edinburgh Castle, which position he held
till 1852. His commissions bear date as follows: ensign, March, 1798;
lieutenant, April 19, 1798; captain, Dec. 28, 1809; major, Dec. 10, 1810;
lieutenant-colonel, June 4, 1813; colonel, July 22, 1830; major-general,
Nov. 23, 1841; lieutenant-general, Nov. 11, 1851; general, Sept. 26, 1857,
and colonel Sixteenth Foot, June 25, 1851. He died March 8, 1861, at
Oxendean, aged 79 years. He was never married. There was a very
good oil-portrait of the general, painted when he was a young soldier, a
copy of which is in the author's possession. He is represented in uniform
with sword, and must have been a splendid-looking man.*
Olive Riddell (1), a daughter of Thomas (1), was a maiden-lady,
(as also four other daughters, whose names have not reached me), who
died March 22, 1862.
RIDDELLS OF CAMIESTON, SCOTLAND.
Thomas Riddell' (1) was third son of Walter¹9 (9), the fourth Baro-
net of Riddell, and Mary, daughter of John Watt, of Rosehill. He was
born in 1690 A. D.; married April 23, 1740, Margaret, daughter of Rev.
William Hunter,† minister of Lilliesleaf and Laird of Union Hall, which
Gen. Henry-James Riddell became involved in his financial relations, having
been security for his kinsman, Sir John B. Riddell, Bart., of Riddell, and was
obliged to sell " Beesborough" to make good his responsibilities, and to raise
means to provide for his several maiden-sisters; some of these lived to be quite aged.
The Hunters were well descended, and the minister a singularly pious and good
man. This family is intimately connected with the Riddells. Union Hall was ac-
quired by Dr. Hunter, the minister's son, who conveyed it to his son, Col. Edgar
Hunter, a very popular country gentleman, who was killed by a fall from his
horse in the prime of life; unmarried. At his death the succession fell to his
first cousin, William Riddell, of Camieston, well known to some still living,
whose father married Colonel Hunter's sister. The eldest daughter of the Rev.
William Hunter married the Rev. Adam Milne, minister and historian of Melrose;
and his only child having died young, the Linthill property passed to Mr. Riddell
