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RIDDELLS OF GRANTON, SCOTLAND.
daughter of James Law, Esq., of Elvington, in the county of Haddington,
and by her had issue five children, of whom hereafter. He was educated
at Edinburgh for the profession of advocate, which he became in 1820.
He was appointed in 1829 to the office of sheriff substitute of the county
of Haddington, which he retained till his death, April 18, 1862. He
possessed considerable professional acquirements, and made a most efficient
magistrate, and combined with these qualifications no ordinary degree of
literary attainments, especially in that department of law and research in
which his brother John was so famous. His brother once said of him,
"he was tarred with the same brush."
Christiana Riddell (1), eldest daughter of Henry (1), of Little
Govan, was born in 1784; was married to Archibald Douglas, of Glinfin-
nart, and was mother of that Col. John Douglas, C. B., who served in the
whole Crimean war, where he led the Eleventh Hussars and miraculously
escaped a desperate charge at Balaklava. She died in 1817.
Jane Riddell (1), second daughter of Henry (1), of Little Govan,
was born Sept. 26, 1790, and resides in Edinburgh.
Catharine Riddell (1), third daughter of Henry* (1), of Little Govan,
was born in 1792 and died in 1869.
SIXTH GENERATION.
Eliza Riddell (1), only surviving daughter of Archibald (2), is now
living with her mother in Austria.
Henry Riddell (3), eldest son of Henry (2), was born Aug. 4, 1819,
and was educated for the profession of barrister-at-law, but was very del-
icate, and died at Wiseton, Northamptonshire, in 1850, aged 31 years, pre-
sumably unmarried.
John Riddell (6), second son of Henry (2), and eldest by second
wife, was born Feb. 18, 1836; now of Dean, near Geelong, Victoria; has
married, but his wife's name has not reached me. No issue.
William Riddell (1), third son of Henry5 (2), was born May 8, 1838;
married in 1877, Lizzie, third daughter of the late Robert Pringle, Esq.,
of Carriber, Linlithgowshire. He was of Singhia, Tirhoot, East Indies,
where he has been successful as a planter. He has taken a country house
called Oxendean, near Dunse, in Berwickshire, Scotland, where his late
father was minister. He does not believe the tradition of the New Jersey
Riddells, that their ancestor was descended from the Granton family, but
thinks he may have been a collateral kinsman.
James Riddell (2), fourth son of Henry (2), was born Dec. 28, 1840;
married in 1869, Harriet-Anne, daughter of William Stevens, Esq., of
Montreal, Canada, and has issue four children, of whom hereafter. He is
of Badulipar, Assam, East Indies, where he has made money as a planter.
Elizabeth Riddell (2), only daughter of Henry (2), was born in
1834 (presumably at Dunse), and resides in Edinburgh with her widowed
mother; unmarried.
Rev. James Riddell (3), eldest son of James" (1), was born June 8,
1823, and was educated at Shrewsbury school, where he was one of the
favorite pupils of Dr. Kennedy, and whence he was elected to a scholar-
ship at Balliol College, in November, 1841, the colleague in the election
being Dr. Matthew Arnold. He had obtained the highest honor at
Shrewsbury, which was the Sydney gold medal. He was only eighteen
when he went, at the head of thirty candidates from the best schools in
