Edward Riddell

{{short description|English cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}

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| country = England

| fullname = Edward Mitford Hutton Riddell

| birth_date = 31 October 1845

| birth_place = Carlton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1898|10|22|1845|10|31}}

| death_place = Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England

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| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm medium-fast

| role =

| club1 = Marylebone Cricket Club

| year1 = 1870–1871

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 4

| runs1 = 89

| bat avg1 = 12.71

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 36

| deliveries1 = 248

| wickets1 = 2

| bowl avg1 = 62.50

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = 1/33

| catches/stumpings1 = 2/–

| date = 13 November

| year = 2019

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/19699.html Cricinfo

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Edward Mitford Hutton Riddell {{postnominal|JP}} (31 October 1845 – 22 October 1898) was an English first-class cricketer.

The son of J. H. Riddell, he was born in October 1845 at Carlton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire. He was educated at Uppingham School, after which he became a banker and served as a justice of the peace.{{cite book |title=Uppingham School Roll, 1824 To 1905 |date=1906 |page=45 |first=Edward |last=Stanford |issue=3 |publisher=Creative Media Partners, LLC |isbn=9781341983689 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BKqNjgEACAAJ |language=en}} Riddell played first-class cricket on four occasions, making his first-class debut for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Nottinghamshire at Lord's in 1870. He played a first-class match for the Gentlemen of the North in the same year against the Gentlemen of the South at Beeston. He made two further first-class appearances in 1871, playing one match each for the MCC and the Gentlemen of the North.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32367/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Edward Riddell |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-11-15}} Across his four first-class matches, Riddell scored 89 runs with a high score of 36, in addition to taking two wickets with his right-arm medium-fast bowling.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32367/32367.html |title=Player profile: Edward Riddell |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-11-15}} He died at Lincoln in October 1898.