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 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. Initial ...

and grandson of Surveyor General of Upper Canada Thomas Ridout.

Career

Federic Victor Poole’s watercolour of the former Post Office at 10 Toronto Street, circa 1912

Ridout completed his training at

King's College, London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King' ...

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

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, with a short-lived engineering practice with

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in 1857 and then to

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in 1875 with the Department of Railways and Canals. Ridout died in Ottawa in 1905.

Buildings built under Cumberland and Ridout

Toronto Normal School The Toronto Normal School was a teachers college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Opened in 1847, the Normal School was located at Church and Gould streets in central Toronto (after 1852), and was a predecessor to the current Ontario Institute for S ...

1851-1852 (demolished 1958-1963) *

Cathedral Church of St. James (Toronto) The Cathedral Church of St. James is an Anglican cathedral in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the location of the oldest congregation in the city, with the parish being established in 1797. The cathedral, with construction beginning in 1 ...

1853 * Toronto Street Post Office 1853 *

York County Courthouse The York County Courthouse, built in 1914, is an historic courthouse located at West Liberty and South Congress streets in the city of York in York County, South Carolina. It was designed in the Classical Revival style by Darlington native Will ...

1853

References

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