page_title: John Riddell (genealogist)
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: John Riddell (genealogist) / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: 57 Melville Street, Edinburgh
context_page_description: John Riddell was a Scottish peerage lawyer and genealogist.
context_section_description: He was eldest son of Anne, eldest daughter of John Glassford of Dougalston, by Anne, daughter of Sir John Nisbet of Dean, and  Henry Riddell of Little Govan. Educated for the law, he was called to the Scottish bar in 1807.
  Riddell made genealogy and Scottish peerage law a special study. He prepared the Crawford and Montrose peerage cases for James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford.
  Riddell died unmarried at his house, 57 Melville Street, Edinburgh, on 8 February 1862. He was buried in the Dean Cemetery on the west side of the city.
  He left a number of manuscripts which, in terms of his will, were acquired by the Advocates' and Signet Libraries, Edinburgh.
caption: Riddell's house at 57 Melville Street, Edinburgh
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