George James Riddell

In the south transept of Westminster Abbey is the grave of George James Riddell and his stepmother Dame Sarah Riddell. It adjoins the grave of Robert Adam and the inscription has been re-cut. It reads:

Here lies interred the body of Lt. George James Riddell, second son of Sr. James Riddell, Bart., by his first wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Milles of Billockby in the county of Norfolk Esqr. He died April 22d 1783 aged 24 years. Also the body of Dame Sarah Riddell, widow of the above Sir James Riddell. She died June 5th 1817 aged 86 years

Sir James was 1st Baronet of Ardnamurchan and Sunart in Argyll, Scotland. George was educated at Oxford and served in the army. He was killed in a duel, full particulars of which can be found in the Gentlemans Magazine for April 1783. Sarah was the daughter of Thomas Burden and her first husband was John Swinburne. She married Sir James in 1775 but they had no children.