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Author: Riddel, John

Biography:

RIDDEL, John (1761?-1819: ancestry.co.uk)

He was a surgeon who graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1783. He was likely born in Glasgow and may have been the John Riddel born on 22 Jan. 1761 to William Riddel and his wife Isobell Steel. No other information has been found. The poems from Pastorals (1776) are reprinted in Original Poems (1780). (ancestry.co.uk 2 Sept. 2021; A Roll of the Graduates of the University of Glasgow [1898])

 

Other Names:

  • J. Riddel
  • J. Riddell
 

Books written (3):

Glasgow: [no publisher], 1776
Edinburgh: R. Jamieson, 1780
Glasgow: printed by Andrew Foulis, 1786