Edward Joshua "King" Riddiford (7 August 1842 – 2 May 1911) was a New Zealand runholder. He was born in Hutt Valley, Wellington, New Zealand in 1842. He married Eleanor Caroline (Nellie) Bunny (1860–1938) on 3 October 1878 at St James' Church in

Lower Hutt Lower Hutt ( mi, Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai) is a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand. Administered by the Hutt City Council, it is one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington metropolitan area. It is New Zealand's sixth most p ...

. She was the daughter of the politician

Henry Bunny Henry Bunny (7 October 1822 – 15 February 1891) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in the Wairarapa, New Zealand. Early life Henry Bunny was born in 1822 in Newbury in Berkshire, the second son of Jere Bunny, solicitor, of that town and ...

. Riddiford died at Longburn of a heart attack in 1911. He was described as New Zealand's only millionaire. He was survived by his wife, who later died when hit by a van. A grandson, Sir

William O'Brien Lindsay Sir William O'Brien Lindsay (8 October 1909 – 20 October 1975) was the Chief Justice of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from 1950 or 1954 to 1955, during the period when it was administered as an Anglo-Egyptian condominium. He served in the Sudan Politi ...

, was Chief Justice of the Sudan."Sir William O'Brien 'Wob' Lindsay"
– Clan MacFarlane and associated clans genealogy. Retrieved 13 August 2015. A granddaughter, Jocelyn Vogel, had

Vogel House Vogel House in 75 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt, New Zealand is a large family home built in 1933 for James and Jocelyn Vogel. It was designed by Heathcote Helmore of the Christchurch architectural firm of Helmore and Cotterill, and built by Walter Dye ...

built in Lower Hutt.

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Edward Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Sa ...

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