Education
Riddell was born in Wandsworth. Educated at Harrow School, he played cricket against Eton at Lord's and performed strongly for the cross-country team. At Clare College, Cambridge, he read modern languages, but took a year out to practise gorilla and cheetah photography in the Belgian Congo and Kenya, interspersed with writing children's books and publicity activities for De Havilland, Selfridges and Fortnum and Mason.
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