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Ice hockey player
Richard Duckett
Born (1885-01-30)January 30, 1885
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died July 19, 1972(1972-07-19) (aged 87)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Position Defence
Played for Montreal Canadiens
Playing career 1904–1912
Canadian athlete, lawyer and coroner
Olympic medal record
Men's lacrosse
Representing  Canada
Gold medal – first place 1908 London Team

Richard Louis Duckett (January 30, 1885 – July 19, 1972) was a Canadian athlete, lawyer and coroner, who held office in the judicial district of Montreal between 1937 and 1961.

Biography

Born in Montreal, the eldest son of a second-generation Irish Canadian shopkeeper and a French Canadian mother, Duckett was educated at the Collège Sainte-Marie before earning a law degree at the Université Laval à Montréal in 1908.

Representing Canada as a member of the Ottawa Nationals Lacrosse Club, Duckett won a gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. In December 1909, he briefly joined the newly-formed Club Athlétique Canadien, but never played a game for the team and did not pursue an ice hockey career any further, though he remained an active lacrosse player through most of the 1910s.

Team picture of the inaugural 1909-10 Montreal Canadiens roster: Duckett appears on the bottom row, third from left.

After ending his athletic career, he joined a Montreal legal cabinet before he was appointed coroner for the district of Montreal by the Duplessis administration in 1937, a position he occupied until his retirement in 1961.

Duckett died in Montreal in 1972 at age 87.

References

  1. Obituary: Le Devoir, July 20, 1972, p. 6
  2. "Richard Louis Duckett". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 April 2021.

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