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[17--]-[1945?] (Creation)
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- Riddell, William Renwick, 1852-1945
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26.5 cm of textual records
2 photographs
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William Renwick Riddell was born on 6 April 1852, in Hamilton Township, Canada West. Riddell studied at Victoria University in Cobourg, earning Bachelor of Arts (1874), Bachelor of Science (1877), and an LLB (1878) degree. He was admitted as a student-at-law by the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1878, and was called to the Bar in 1883. He practiced law in Cobourg before moving to Toronto in the 1890s. In 1891, Riddell was elected a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada, a position he held until his appointment as a justice with the High Court (King’s Bench) in 1906. He served as a justice with the High Court of Justice from 1913 to 1925, and as a justice with the Court of Appeal from 1925 to 1945. Riddell was a prolific writer on Canadian legal, constitutional, medical and social history, producing over 1200 articles, reviews, lectures, pamphlets and books. He received eleven honorary degrees throughout his life. Riddell died at Toronto on 18 February 1945.
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Fonds consists of certificates, correspondence, research material, photographs and other material relating to the legal career and research interests of William Renwick Riddell. The research material relates to William Dummer Powell and to a medieval French folktale. The fonds also consists of several legal documents collected by Riddell. The fonds includes one sous-fonds, which contains the law practice records of Alexander Macdonell, a lawyer in Toronto during the mid-nineteenth century. The sous-fonds also includes research notes by Riddell on Macdonell. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Research material Certificates and membership card Correspondence Miscellaneous legal documents Clippings Photographs Alexander Macdonell sous-fonds
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