William Riddell of Camieston

(1746-1829)

LBT ID: WiRidde1829	B/BAP: 1746 DIED: 1829-11-23
SOURCES: James C. Corson, Notes to Scott's Letters, ed. Grierson; A History of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet (1890) 170
Son of Thomas Riddell of Camieston; he was a Writer to the Signet (1770) who quarreled with Walter Scott.
REFERENCES TO William Riddell of Camieston: Walter Scott to the Duke of Buccleugh, 15 April 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VIII 1819