John Riddell

(1785-1862)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Riddell, John, 1785-1862 NRA: Riddell John (1785-1862) peerage lawyer genealogist DNB: Riddell, John (1785-1862), lawyer and genealogist LBT ID: JoRidde1862 VIAF ID: 30984595 LOC ID: n85252353	B/BAP: 1785-10-04 DIED: 1862-02-08
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Scottish lawyer, genealogist, and friend of John Gibson Lockhart; he published Inquiry into the Law and Practice in Scottish Peerages before and after the Union, 2 vols (1842).
REFERENCES TO John Riddell: John Gibson Lockhart to Jonathan Christie, 15 June 1813 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Gibson Lockhart to Jonathan Christie, 3 January 1816 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 14 Hogg, James, 1770-1835, “Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (October 1817) 89-96 Found 2: ¶ 82 ¶ 177 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XII 1815 Found 1: ¶ 8 Chapter VI 1818 Found 1: ¶ 21 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 3: 1813-15 Chapter 4: 1815-17