Son of Edward Joshua and Eleanor (Bunny) Riddiford. Married Jessie Meta Johnston; landowner, Grenadier Guards (WWI), various public offices [Who's who NZ, 1971]
Riddiford, Daniel Henry Strother, 1883-1971
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Manuscript
Correspondence - Phillips-Russell
Date: [1942]
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-221
Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; also includes letter from [?] R T Lawrence, Trentham Military Camp Other Titles - Sixth annual report of the Auckland Centre of the NZ Red Cross Society (1942) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Riddiford family : Papers
Date: 1863-1912
By: Riddiford family
Reference: MS-Papers-1392
Description: Personal and station diaries; include diaries of E J Riddiford, 1878-1907, recording personal and business interests; Lionel Riddiford's diary, 1903, at Wanganui Collegiate; station diaries of Te Awaiti, 1863-1907, kept by E J Riddiford, R Riddiford, various managers; diaries for Longburn and Tablelands stations. Stock records and account books for Te Awaiti and Tablelands Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 131 folder(s). 2 volume(s). 0.66 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (and photocopies) Finding Aids: Inventory available.
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Various papers
Date: [1913-1945]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: MSO-Papers-5714-4
Description: Comprises reconveyance deed between Daniel Riddiford and William Hort Levin for land in the Hutt (1870); roading and drainage plans, Waipawa (1913); AA London route map; maps, Saint Jean and St Julien (France) and El Daba (Egypt) (1940s); page from the `Times' with military honours including Daniel Riddiford for the Military Cross (29 Apr 1918); and plan relating to ownership of Awaroa Station and flooding, on Ruamahanga River Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Alexander Mowat - Correspondence and papers
Date: [1915-1970]
From: Mowat family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7496-03
Description: Personal and business correspondence and papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Outward letters
Date: [1896-1931]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5714-063
Description: Comprises mostly letters from Meta Riddiford to her mother, Sophie Johnston, but also includes letters from D H S Riddiford to Sophie, Meta to Daniello from Longwood, Featherston (1913) and to J and to P Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Johnston family ephemera
Date: [1872-1960]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5714-125
Description: Prayer card for Henrietta Charlotte Johnston (d 1878); at home card of Mr & Mrs Charles Johnston for Mr & Mrs Sydney Johnston (1896); Sundown Park Club autumn meeting (1891); photograph of birth notice of daughter born to D H S and Meta Riddiford from the `Times' (1916); at home cards for Lady Robinson to the Sydney Johnstons, to Dan Riddiford for Mrs Sydney Johnston, and one blank; unused decorated envelope; concert programme of Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen, on SS `Friedrich der Grosse', Mrs Johnston's copy, with signatures (1901); Bachelors' Ball card (filled in), Napier (7 Jun 1872); Winter Dance invitation to the Sydney Johnstons, Napier (1897); and notes re funeral of Makaretu School Store (nd) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Correspondence - I M R-Little
Date: [1942]
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-218
Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; also includes circular newsletter on the situation in India from S and M Townend, Dunedin Other Titles - Frit Danmark; the Danish weekly published in London (1 Jan 1942) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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New Zealand - Miscellaneous
Date: 1948
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-216
Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, Mar-Jul 1948. Includes book-binding; Auckland Sunday School Union mobile van (F E Slattery & W E Archer); shepherds and dogs from Lake Pukaki Station; Mount Cook Manual Training Centre, Wellington (Miss Colleen Dreyer, teacher and her pupils); girls of the Hastings Rangers Company who built a meeting-house of rammed earth with their leader Miss Pauline Tyers; Empire Day ball attended by girls from Auckland and Epsom Grammar schools, Diocesan and St Cuthbert's Collge shown dancing the minuet. Official opening of two bottle stores in Masterton by members of the Licensing Trust (includes J C D Mackley, C C Crawford and F Pickering); children in the audience of a Wellington movie theatre and looking at a poster advertising `Swiss Family Robinson'; Rora Street, Te Kuiti; D H S Riddiford making presentation to Mrs Paki (said to be 108) at Castlepoint Centenary celebrations; party of 22 typists from United Kingdom who were employed on two year contract to work in Government offices in Wellington (all named); M Anthony, skipper of New Zealand yacht Rangi with crew members F Lush and T Hammond; New Zealand flier Captain A A Mansfield, Rt Hon W J Jordan and others. Colleen Saunders wih puppies; New Zealand rugby players in London (Ted Ellisson (Dunedin), Ian McKenzie (Auckland), Arch Beadle (Dunedin), Barry Martin (Petone), Noy Reid (Auckland), Jim Hay (Wellington); Lincoln College float at Christchurch with `Millie the million dollar cow'; Handley Page Hastings, Britain's biggest transport plane at Wigram; children at Pointways, a pony club at Pakuranga; George Rush, Jack Hull, Ray Raynor and Tom Chamberlain at Timaru displaying the large number of salmon they caught; The Pinnacles near mouth of Putangirua Stream, Palliser Bay; rugby player Bob Scott; bodies of women who lost their lives in a blizzard in Copland Pass being brought to the Hermitage by guides, Apr 1848; Mrs M E Rogers of Christchurch with large salmon caught by her husband in Waimakariri River; Salvation Army Centennial Conference held in Dunedin (officers all named). Processes related to export of whiskey at a British distillery; Waitaki Boys' High School team at Otago and Southland secondary school athletic championships held in Dunedin; corvettes Arabis and Arbutus leaving Auckland for Britain; small child milking a cow; Women's Section of Christchurch RSA; Stratford Pipe Band at Inglewood United Rugby Football Club Jubilee celebrations; people under hypnosis; New Plymouth Easter Pilots' Camp; Private Muriel Cousins, Whakatane making memorial medal at Trentham Military Camp; tug Tapuhi towing retiring tug Natone to Shelly Bay; launch Ede launched at Kaikoura; first guests at `Scotlands', the Women's Division of Federated Farmers rest-home at Onehunga, Auckland (Mrs W G Graham, Mrs M A Cruickshank, Mrs A E Escott and Mrs A E Bridge) Quantity: 87 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
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Papers
Date: [?1864]-1953
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: fMS-Papers-5502-2
Description: Comprises assignment re Oroi and Orongorongo between Eric Leslie Riddiford and E E Riddiford; memorandum of grant of right of way between William Horton Cruickshank to the Crown; notes re members of the Baker family; and insurance papers re estate of E L Riddiford Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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2/1 Daniel Henry Strother Riddiford - Family correspondence
Date: [1910-1969]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: Series-0350
Description: Quantity: 7 folder(s).
Other
de Stacpoole, Michael: Letter and Biographical Information
Date: 27 June 1963 - 2021
By: de Stacpoole, Michael, active 2021
Reference: MS-Papers-12675
Description: Contains handwritten letter written by Mr Daniel Henry Strother Riddiford to Doreen de Stacpoole and biographical information on Doreen de Stacpoole. The letter, dated 27 June 1963, was sent to Doreen de Stacpoole thanking her letter of sympathy following the death of Riddiford’s wife Meta Riddiford. Title supplied by Library. Further correspondence relating to the death of Meta Riddiford is held at Library reference MS-Papers-5714-0215714-021. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: 1 letter, 1 envelope and 1 printed A4 sheet. Provenance: Donor is the son of Doreen de Stacpoole.
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2/4 Daniel Henry Strother Riddiford - Farming matters
Date: [1908-1967]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: Series-0368
Description: The series comprises stock returns for Te Awaiti; inward correspondence from A F Harding; papers relating to farming, to Horace Hewitt and to house alterations; includes Lagoon Hill letter books (several by Horace Hewitt), shorthorn herd book of D H S Riddiford, Te Awaiti disbursements and D H S Riddiford's Te Awaiti diaries Quantity: 20 volume(s) and 8 folders.
Manuscript
Political personalities (file)
Date: [ca 1899-1977]
From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Further papers
Reference: 80-063-036
Description: Letter from Johannes Andersen on how well he knew Robert Stout (1956); clippings, particularly about Sir Robert Stout; `Get rid of Riddiford' circular; also clippings from printed material in the 1890s about New Zealand, some from the `Bulletin' Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Correspondence - Radio-Ruawai
Date: [1943]
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-227
Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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2/3 Daniel Henry Strother Riddiford - Death of Meta Riddiford
Date: [1963]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: Series-0367
Description: Meta Riddiford died in 1963 and this series comprises letters inward to D H S Riddiford from family and friends Quantity: 4 folder(s).
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Correspondence - Q-Z
Date: 1942-1981
From: Vogt, Herlof Anton Herlofsen, 1914-1984 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5201-119
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Manuscript
Copies of correspondence with Holland and Riddiford
Date: 1941-1943
From: Sutch, William Ball (Dr), 1907-1975 : Research notes on Joseph Gordon Coates
Reference: MS-Papers-7170-089
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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2/10 Daniel Henry Strother Riddiford - Printed material and ephemera
Date: [1910-1969]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: Series-0465
Description: Comprises programmes, printed matter, invitations and ephemera and `Apollo' (a magazine) Quantity: 6 folder(s).
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2/5 Daniel Henry Strother Riddiford - Property and legal matters
Date: [1867-1963]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: Series-0462
Description: Legal and business papers re land and land concerns, business papers and family business matters Quantity: 6 folder(s).
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2/7 Daniel Henry Strother Riddiford - War matters
Date: [1860-1946]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: Series-0463
Description: Comprises diaries of D H S Riddiford; papers relating to his war service, to war and military service; in memorial volume for Wanganui Collegiate School; a play by Charles Bennett, `The Last hour'; family correspondence; commissions and menus; Grenadier Guards and Brigade of Guards papers; official naval despatches and other papers; see also Series 8 for maps associated with Riddiford's WWI war service Quantity: 12 folder(s) and one vol.