304 Obituary Notices of Fellows deceased. 



great personal exertions of Lieut.-Col. KiddeJl, whereby the Artillery in 

 the Crimea were provided with very warm clothing and necessaries- 

 much earlier than the rest of the army, thus preserving lives and 

 preventing sickness in a very great degree." 



On the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny in 1857 he was sent to- 

 India, and commanded the siege artillery of Outram's force on the left 

 bank of the Goomtee at the siege and capture of Lucknow in March, 

 1858. He also commanded the artillery of General Lugard's column 

 at the affair of Tigree, the relief of Azimghar, operations in the jungle 

 and the capture of Jugdespore. He was three times mentioned in 

 despatches, receiving the reward of being made Brevet-Colonel and 

 the Companionship of the Bath. Eeturning to England on account of 

 ill health in 1863, he ended his active service at Sheer ness in 1866, 

 retiring with the rank of Major-General. 



His writings on military subjects consisted of papers on the 

 organization of the British artillery and the administration of the 

 British army in 1852, and, when the war broke out in South Africa, 

 papers on the same questions. Being from early life interested in the 

 Education question he wrote several papers on the organization of 

 Church schools. 



His life after retirement was chiefly spent in improving his 

 property, a farm at Chudleigh, in Devonshire, and for the benefit of 

 the various philanthropic objects of that neighbourhood, but his 

 interest in scientific progress continued to the last. 



In 1847 he married Miss Mary Ross, second daughter of Sir Hew 

 Ross, G.C.B., R.A. She died in 1900, leaving one daughter. 



Riddell was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1842, and was 

 its senior member at the time of his death, as well as senior officer 

 of the Royal Artillery. Taken ill with influenza followed by 

 pneumonia, he died oh January 25, 1903, at Oaklands, Chudleigh. 



E. W. C. 



