OBITUARY

Southland Times, Issue 22449, 12 October 1934, Page 7

OBITUARY

MR E. V. RIDDIFORD. LOSS TO THE TURF. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, October 11. Private advice was received in Wellington to-night of the death. at sea this morning of Mr Edward Vivian Riddiford, of Glenburn and Tablelands. 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 was accompanied by his wife and daughter, Pamela. One of the Dominion’s best known and most successful pastoralists, Mr Riddiford, who home is at Woburn, Lower Hutt, was equally prominent in racing circles. He was a member of the 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 Steeplechase. On his own account, Mr Riddiford was holder of the Wellington Cup, Mitchelson Cup and other coveted trophies. Mr Riddiford was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School and began his career as a sheepfarmer as a cadet at Teawaiti, Wairarapa, on the. property of his father, Mr E. V. Riddiford. He later managed his father’s properties at Longbum and Cheltenham and upon the latter’s death in 1911, took overthe Glenburn sheep and cattle run on the East Coast of Tablelands, the Romney Marsh sheep stud in Wairarapa and Brentwood and the noted. Trentham racing stud. Mr Riddiford married Zoe. Thorne George, third daughter of the Hon. Seymour Thorne George, of Auckland. Their two daughters are Mrs J. Vogel, of Lower Hutt, and Pamela.