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Riddel may refer to:
- Riddels, or riddel curtains, posts, rails etc, curtains at the sides of a church altar.
- Peter Riddel (died 1641), English politician
- Eliza and Isabella Riddel, who endowed Riddel Hall to Queen's University Belfast in 1913
- Riddel (Chrono Cross), a fictional character
Usage examples of "riddel".
Robert Riddel, of the Friars-Carse, to whom these fragments were sent, was a good man as well as a distinguished antiquary.
Monkland Book Club existed only while Robert Riddel, of the Friars-Carse, lived, or Burns had leisure to attend: such institutions, when well conducted, are very beneficial, when not oppressed by divinity and verse, as they sometimes are.
Impressed with this idea, a gentleman in this parish, Robert Riddel, Esq.
David Maigh, keeper of the blood slough hounds, belonging to the Laird of Riddel, in Tweeddale.
I think, the happiest composition of that bard-born genius, John Riddel, of the family of Glencarnock, at Ayr.
Mark Riddel, a plain farmer-body from Teviotside, that comes up Aller seeking a better tack and has mair knowledge of sheep than any herd on the hills.
Mark Riddel appeared to be for ever on the move, and the minister met him oftenest on the Rood road--generally in the early darkness.
Mark Riddel met him one morning on the road and drew rein sharply at the sight of his face.
Sempill had as his helper one Amos Ritchie, a dweller in Woodilee, of whom I had hoped better things, and one Mark Riddel, a new-come tenant of the mailing of Crossbasket.
He took a leading part in defending a woman accused of witchcraft in the back-end, and--though it seems that the witch-pricker was a poor creature with some irregularities in his conduct--yet it cannot be denied that the words and doings of the man Mark Riddel on that occasion gave great offence to godly folk in Woodilee, and led to the just suspicion that he himself had meddled with unlawful matters.
The scared eyes of the people saw Mark Riddel, for whom soldiers were now beating the countryside, standing easy and arrogant before the pulpit, and those near him drew away their stools in panic.
I was baptized after the Apostle, and for my surname ye can choose Kerr or Riddel as it pleases you.
Riddel is remembered, and the absence of fair Clarinda is lamented in strains both impassioned and pathetic.