page_title: William Renwick Riddell
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: William Renwick Riddell / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: The justices of the Divisional Court, Supreme Court of Ontario, taken sometime between 1925 and 1928. Item is a group photograph of the justices of the Supreme Court of Ontario, Second Divisional Court. Depicted from left to right are: Justice Masten, Justice Riddell, Justice Latchford, Justice Middleton, and Justice Orde. A court clerk is seated below the bench. The photograph was taken in a courtroom at Osgoode Hall.
context_page_description: William Renwick Riddell was a Canadian lawyer, judge, and historian.
context_section_description: Riddell was born in Hamilton Township, Ontario and attended Cobourg Grammar School and Victoria College. He was called to the bar in 1883, and conducted a law practice in Cobourg until he moved to Toronto in 1893. Riddell was appointed as judge to the Supreme Court of Ontario in 1906.
  As a historian, he published numerous works of legal, medical and social history, including biographies of William Kirby and John Graves Simcoe.
  Riddell was President of Crossen Car Manufacturing Company and married Anna Crossen, daughter of the company's founder.
  Riddell died at his home in Toronto in 1945.
caption: Group photograph of the justices of the Supreme Court of Ontario, Second Divisional Court. Depicted from left to right are: Justice Masten, Justice Riddell, Justice Latchford, Justice Middleton, and Justice Orde. A court clerk is seated below the bench. The photograph was taken in a courtroom at Osgoode Hall, ca. 1925
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