OBITUARY

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 October 1934, Page 7

OBITUARY

EDWARD V. RIDDIFORD.

[per press association.]

WELLINGTON, October 11.

Private advice was received in Wellington to-night of the death of Mr Edward Vivian Riddiford, of Glenburn and Tablelands. The late Mr Riddiford, who was aged 55, was returning from a trip to England in the Rangitiki, which was due at Auckland on October 24, and he was accompanied by his wife and daughter, Pamela. One of the Dominion’s best known and most successful pastoralists, Mr Riddiford, whose home was at Woburn, Lower Hutt, was equally prominent in racing circles. He was a member of a family whose turf associations are part of the history of the sport in this country. He, with his brother, Eric, won a large number of the principal handicap races in New Zealand, including the New Zealand Cup, Auckland Cup, and Grand National. On his own account, Mr Riddiford was the holder of the Wellington Cup, Mitchelson Cup, and other coveted trophies. Educated at Wanganui Collegiate School, he began his career as a sheep farmer as cadet at Te Awaiti, the Wairarapa property of his father, Mr E. V. Riddiford. He later managed his father’s properties at Longhurn and Cheltenham, and upon the latter’s death in 1911, took over the Glenburn sheep and cattle run on the East Coast Tablelands, the Romney Marsh Sheep Stud in Wairarapa, and Brentwood, a noted Trentham stud. He married Miss Zoe Thorne George, third daughter of Hon Seymour Thorne George, of Auckland. Their two daughters are Mrs J. Vogel, Lower Hutt, and Miss Pamela Riddiford.