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.
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 he was appointed coroner for the district of Montreal by the Duplessis administration in 1937, a position he occupied until his retirement in 1961.
