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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 the 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 1853

References

1. Kevin Plummer (2015-10-30). "Toronto Street: The evolution of the city's once most elegant streetscape". Torontoist. Retrieved 2020-10-02. Called "ne of the most interesting buildings left to us of the nineteenth century" by architect and historian Eric Arthur, 10 Toronto Street set a high architectural standard that was matched by its neighbours.
2. ^ "Ridout, Thomas | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada".

• 1828 births
• 1905 deaths
• Canadian architects