Thomas Ridout (other)
Thomas Ridout may refer to: * Thomas Ridout (architect) (1828–1905), Canadian architect and railway engineer * Thomas Ridout (politician) (1754–1829), Canadian politician * Thomas Gibbs Ridout Thomas Gibbs Ridout was a member of the small circle of privileged insiders who Lieutenant Governors of Upper Canada appointed to hold administrative posts and sinecures. His father, Thomas Ridout, was Surveyor General of Upper Canada. Initia ...

Thomas Ridout (architect)
Thomas Ridout (October 17, 1828 – July 3, 1905) was a Canadian architect and railway engineer. Personal Ridout was the son of Upper Canada official and banker Thomas Gibbs Ridout and grandson of Surveyor General of Upper Canada Thomas Ridout. Career 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. 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. Ridout died in Ottawa in 1905. Buildings built under Cumberland and Ridout * Toronto Normal School 1851-1852 (demolished 1958-1963) * Cathedral Church of St. James (Toronto) 1853 * Toronto Street Post Office 1853 * York County Courthouse The York County Courthou ...
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Thomas Ridout (politician)
Thomas Ridout (March 17, 1754 – February 8, 1829) was a political figure in Upper Canada. Life and career He was born in Sherborne, England, in 1754 and moved to Annapolis, Maryland in 1774. In 1787, he was travelling to Kentucky when his group was captured by a party of Shawnees; he was held captive and later released in Detroit, then held by the British. Ridout fled to Montreal instead of returning to Annapolis. He married the daughter of a Loyalist and settled with his family at Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake). Ridout started work in 1793 as clerk for the Surveyor-General of Upper Canada, moved to York in 1797 and then as interim Surveyor-General with William Chewett from 1804 to 1805. In 1810, he was appointed to the post of Surveyor-General for Upper Canada in 1807, replacing Charles Burton Wyatt and Joseph Bouchette. It was in that position that he came to know Elijah Bentley. He had also been named registrar for York County in 1796 and justice of the peace in the Home D ...
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