Thomas George Roddick

He was married to Urelia M McKinnon of Pointe-Claire, Quebec, in 1880, but she died in Montreal in 1890. Then Amy Redpath Roddick became the second wife of Thomas Roddick on September 3, 1906. Amy Redpath Roddick (May 16, 1868 - February 16, 1954) was the first-born child and only daughter of Ada Mills and John James Redpath.

He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the riding of St. Antoine in the 1896 federal election. A Conservative he was re-elected in 1900. Roddick was instrumental, after an arduous 18-year campaign, in helping pass the "Roddick Bill" or Canada Medical Act which created a national medical licensing standard that allowed physicians to practise in every province in Canada. With the creation of the Medical Council of Canada in 1912 Roddick was named first on the Canadian Medical Register.

He was President of the Canadian Medical Association and President of the British Medical Association. He was knighted in 1914.

Sir Thomas Roddick died on February 20, 1923, and was buried at Mount Royal Cemetery on February 22. However upon reading his Will on February 26, six days after his death and four days after his burial, the executors of his Will realized his final wishes had been to be cremated and demanded Sir Thomas be exhumed and cremated according to his wishes. Lady Roddick staunchly opposed his exhumation, stating her husband's final wishes had changed shortly before his death. The case was brought before the Quebec Superior Court and was successfully contested by Lady Roddick.

Roddick is buried at Mount Royal Cemetery in section L1 1, where Lady Roddick erected a family funerary monument for her husband which mirrored that which she had erected at McGill University in his honour, the Roddick Gates.