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Thomas Ridout (architect)

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Thomas Ridout
Born(1828-10-17)October 17, 1828
DiedJuly 3, 1905(1905-07-03) (aged 76)
Canada
Occupation(s)Architect, engineer

Thomas Ridout (October 17, 1828 – July 3, 1905) was a Canadian architect and railway engineer.

Personal

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Ridout was the son of Upper Canada official and banker Thomas Gibbs Ridout and grandson of Surveyor General of Upper Canada Thomas Ridout.

Career

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In 1851 Ridout's firm designed 10 Toronto Street, a celebrated former Post Office.[1]

Ridout completed his training at King's College, London and returned to Toronto in 1850 to practice under a short-lived partnership of Cumberland and Ridout.[2]

His architecture career was dim so with his family's influence left Toronto in 1852 to become assistant engineer with Great Western Railway in Hamilton, Ontario, with a short-lived engineering practice with Sandford Fleming in 1857, and then to Ottawa, Ontario in 1875 with the Department of Railways and Canals.[2]

Ridout died in Ottawa in 1905.

Buildings built under Cumberland and Ridout

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References

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  1. ^ Kevin Plummer (2015-10-30). "Toronto Street: The evolution of the city's once most elegant streetscape". Torontoist. Retrieved 2020-10-02. Called "[o]ne of the most interesting buildings left to us of the nineteenth century" by architect and historian Eric Arthur, 10 Toronto Street set a high architectural standard that was matched by its neighbours.
  2. ^ a b "Ridout, Thomas | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada".