OBITUARY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 270, 12 October 1934, Page 2

OBITUARY

MR E. V. RIDDIFORD

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Oct. 11. Private advice was received in 'W ellington to-night of the death at sea this morning of Mr Edward Vivian Riddilord, of Glenburn and Tablelands. Mr Riddilord, who was aged 55; was returning from a trip to England in the Rangitiki which is due at Auckland on October 24, and was accompanied by his wife and daughter, Miss Pamela Riddiford. One of the Dominion’s best-known and most successful pastoralists, Mr Riddiford, whose homo is at Woburn, Lower Hutt, was equally prominent in racing circles. A member of a family whose turf asosciations are part of the history of sport in this country, he, with his brother Eric, had won a large number of tile principal handicap races in New Zealand, including the New Zealand Cup, Auckland Cup, and Grand National Steeplechase. On his own account, Mr Riddiford was the holder of the Wellington Cup, the Mitchelson Cup, and other coveted trophies. Mr Riddiford was educated at the Wanganui Collegiate School and began his career as a sheepfarmer as a cadet at Te Awaiti, the Wairarapa property, of his father, Mr E. J. Riddiford. He later managed his father’s properties at Longburn and at 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 the Wairarapa, and Brentwood, the noted Trentlnim racing stud. Mr Riddiford married Miss Zoe Thorne-George, the third daughter of Hon. Seymour Thorne-George, of Auckland. Their two daughters are Mrs J. Vogel, of Lower Hutt, and Miss Pamela Riddiford. MR ANDREW D. GRAY. There passed away at his residence, at Kelvin Grove, on Monday, Mr Andrew Dodds Gray, at the age of 66 years, an old settler of that district. The son of the late Mr James Gray, he was born at Plimmerton in 1868. After his marriage to Miss Jessie Pearce, of Pahautanui, some thirty years ago he came to Kelvin Grove and engaged in farming. Though he had not been in good "health for some years, his death came as a shock to his many friends. Of a likeable but reserved disposition, he will be missed by numerous acquaintances throughout the Wellington province.

There are left to mourn their loss his widow; two sons, Messrs Janies (Plimmerton) and George (Kelvin Grove) ; and three daughters, Mesdaines listen (Marton), Ellis (Johnsonvillc), and Miss Jessie Gray, of Kelvin Grove. One brother, Mr William Gray, resides at Omata, near New Plymouth. Mr Gray’s sister predeceased him four months ago.