Richard Louis Duckett

Richard Louis Duckett (1885 to 1972) was a Canadian athlete, lawyer and coroner. Born in Montreal, the eldest son of a second-generation Irish Canadian shopkeeper and a French Canadian mother, he was educated at the Collège Sainte-Marie and earned a law degree at the Université Laval à Montréal in 1908. Representing Canada as a member of the Montreal Nationals Lacrosse Club, he 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, though he remained an active lacrosse player through most of the 1910s. He joined a Montreal legal firm and was appointed coroner for the district of Montreal in 1937, a position he held until his retirement in 1961. He died in Montreal in 1972 at the age of 87.