Background
The eldest of the eight children of Joseph Riddle of Old Market Street, Bristol, he was born there on 7 April 1804.
The eldest of the eight children of Joseph Riddle of Old Market Street, Bristol, he was born there on 7 April 1804.
From Mr. Porter"s school in Bristol he was sent by the Bristol society for educating young men for the church to Mr. Havergal at the rectory in Astley, Worcestershire. He matriculated at Street Edmund Hall, Oxford, on 18 January 1825, and obtained a first class in classics, graduating Bachelor of Arts in Michaelmas term 1828, and Master of Arts in 1831.
From 1828 to 1830 Riddle lived at Ramsgate, where he took pupils.
In 1830 he was ordained deacon, and was successively curate of Everley, Upper Slaughter (from 1832), Reading and All Souls", Marylebone. In 1836 he was assistant minister at Brunswick Chapel, Upper Berkeley Street, and in 1837 he became curate of Harrow, soon moving to Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire.
Subsequently Riddle returned to Oxford in order to make use of the libraries. He was select preacher at Oxford in 1834 and 1854, and Bampton lecturer in 1852.
From 1840 until his death, on 27 August 1859, he was incumbent of Saint Philip"s, Leckhampton in Gloucestershire.
He was a vigorous defender of evangelical principles against the Tractarian movement.
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