Richard Duckett
Born (1884-01-30)January 30, 1884
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died July 19, 1972(1972-07-19) (aged 88)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Position Defence
Played for Montreal Canadiens
Playing career 1904–1912
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.[1]

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.[2]

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 his appointment as 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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