DIED AT SEA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 242, 12 October 1934, Page 3

DIED AT SEA.

MR. E. V. RIDDIFORD. SUCCESSFUL PASTORALIST. WELL-KNOWN HOUSE OWNE3,. (By Telegraph.— rress Association." WELLINGTON, Thursday. Private advice was received in Wellington to-night of the death at sea this morning of Mr. Edward Vivian Riddiford. Mr. Riddiford wan returning from a trip to England on the Rangitiki, which is due at Auckland on October 24, and was accompanied by his wife and his daughter, Miss Pamela Riddiford.

One of the Dominion's best-known and most successful pastoraliste, Mr. Riddiford, whose home is at Woburn, Lower Hutt, was equally prominent in racing circles. Ho was a notable participant and enthusiast of one of a family whose turf associations are part of the history of the sport in this country. Apart from his activities as a pastoralist, racehorse owner and breeder, Mr. Riddiford was widely known and popular as a citizen and a sportsman, who, in the fullest sense, played a large

Beginning as a cadet on his father's properties, Mr. Riddiford had a long and successful career as a sheep farmer, first as an estate manager and afterwards as an owner. He was f>s years of age. Born at Lower Hutt, he was a son of the lato Mr. E, J. Riddiford and a grandson of one of New Zealand'* earliest pioneers, Mr. Daniel Riddiford, who arrived in New Zealand in 1840. He was educated at Wangariui Collegiate School and began his career ae a sheep farmer on his father's property, Te Awaiti, Wairarapa. Later, Mr. Riddiford managed his father's properties, including "Longburn" and "Cheltenham." Mr. K. J. Riddiford died in 1911, and Mr. Vivian Riddiford took over "Blengurn," a sheep and cattle run on the East Coast, "Tablelands," a Romney Marsh sheep stud in the Wairarapa, and "Brentwood," the noted Trentham racing stud. In 1908 he married Miss Zoe Thorne George, third daughter of the Hon. Seymour Thorne George, of Auckland. Their two daughters arc Mrs. J. Vogel, of Lower Hutt, and Miss Pamela Riddiford.

Mr. Riddiford's brother, Mr. Erie Riddiford, owner of the Orongorongo Station, where he resides, was his partner in a remarkably successful racing career, during which they won a large number of the principal handicap races in New Zealand, including the New Zealand Cup, the Auckland Cup, and the Grand National. On his owa account Mr. Riddiford was the holder of the Wellington Cup, the Mitchelso'i Cup, and other coveted racing trophies. Early in 1932 Mr. Riddiford retired from active participation in racing.