GREAT PASTORALIST

Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1934, Page 5

GREAT PASTORALIST

DEATH OF MR. E. V. RIDDIFORD. WELL-KNOWN IN TURF CIRCLES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Private advice was received at 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 is due at Auckland on October 24, and WAs accompanied by his Wife and daughter, Pamela. He was .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, the Auckland Cup and the Grand National. On his own account Mr. Riddiford was the holder of the Wellington Cup, the Mitchelson Gup and other coveted trophies. He Was educated at the Wanganui Collegiate School and began his career as a shOepfarmer as a cadet at Te Awaiti, Wairarapa, the property of his father. He later managed his father’s properties at Longbum and Cheltenham and upon the latter’s death in 1911 he 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 Trentham racing Stud. Mr. Riddiford married Miss Zoe Thome George, the third daughter of the Hon. Seymour Thorne George, Auckland. Their two daughters are Mrs. J. Vogel, Lower Hutt, and Miss Pamela Riddiford.