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Ritchie Whitson
Ritchie may refer to: People Surname * Adele Ritchie (1874–1930), singer – comic opera, musical comedy and vaudeville * Albert Ritchie (1876–1936), governor of Maryland 1920 to 1935 * Alistair Ferguson Ritchie (1890–1954), crossword compiler under the pseudonym Afrit * Allison Ritchie (born 1974), Australian politician *Andrew Jackson Ritchie (1868–1948), president of Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School *Andy Ritchie (English footballer) (born 1960), English footballer *Andy Ritchie (Scottish footballer) (born 1956), Scottish footballer * Archibald Alexander Ritchie (1806–1856), American ship captain, China trader, and California businessman. *Brian Ritchie (born 1960), guitarist for Violent Femmes band * Bruce Ritchie (born 1965), British property developer * Byron Ritchie (born 1977), Canadian ice hockey player *Cedric Ritchie (1927–2016), Canadian businessman *Charles Ritchie (diplomat) (1906–1995), Canadian diplomat *Charles Thomson Ritchie (1838–1906), 1st Baron Ritchi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adele Ritchie
Adele Ritchie (December 21, 1874 – April 24, 1930) was an American prima donna of comic opera and star of Edwardian musical comedies and vaudeville. Her career began in the early 1890s and continued for nearly twenty-five years. She killed a friend, then herself in a murder–suicide. Early life and career Ritchie was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Quaker parents of French descent and, by the age of three, the step-daughter of Jacob Benclift Pultz, founder of the J.B. Pultz Company. She attended the Catholic girl’s preparatory school, Villa Maria Academy (Malvern, Pennsylvania), Villa Maria Academy at Malvern, Pennsylvania, Malvern, and made her first stage appearance as a singer in a production of a French comedy entitled ''The Isle of Champagne'' at Miner's Fifth Avenue Theatre on June 5, 1893. With the aid of Reginald De Koven, Ritchie appeared in the fall of 1893 at the Park Theatre, Philadelphia, playing a minor role in his comic opera, ''The Algeria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ritchie (other)
David Ritchie or Dave Ritchie may refer to: *David Ritchie (cricketer) (1892–1974), English cricketer * David Ritchie (diplomat), Australian diplomat *David Ritchie (footballer) (born 1971), former English footballer *David Ritchie (moderator) (1763–1844), moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 1814/15 * David Ritchie (politician) (1812–1867), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives * David Ritchie (surgeon) (1920–1993), British doctor * David Edward Ritchie, chairman of Vancouver-based Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers * David George Ritchie (1853–1903), Scottish philosopher *David J. Ritchie (1950–2009), game designer and author * David "Tarzan" Ritchie (born 1945), shinty player * Dave Ritchie (Canadian football) (born c. 1930), coach in the Canadian Football League *Dave Ritchie (footballer) (born 1935), Australian rules footballer * Dave Ritchie (ice hockey) (1892–1973), ice hockey player *Black Dwarf (personage) David Ritchie (1740â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Ritchie
Gregory Michael Ritchie (born 23 January 1960) is a former Australian international cricketer who played in 30 Tests matches and 44 One Day Internationals between 1982 and 1987. Ritchie played for Queensland between 1980 and 1992. He scored 10,170 runs in his first class cricket career at an average of 44.21 including 24 centuries and 54 fifties. In the year 2000 he was named as one of the seven greatest Sheffield Shield run scorers in Queensland history for amassing over 6,000 runs for his state. International career Ritchie was affectionately known as "Fat Cat" due to his burly build. He was selected for Australia's 1982-83 tour of Pakistan as a middle-order batsman replacement for Greg Chappell. He scored his first century, 106 not out, in his second Test at Faisalabad. He was unable to force his way into the Australia side over the 1982–83 and 1983-84 summers but was picked on the 1984 tours of the West Indies and India and made the Australian side over the 1984-85 su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Ritchie (actor)
This list of Scottish actors is part of the List of Scots series. A * Khalid Abdalla (born 1980) * Andrew Agnew (born 1976) *Sadie Aitken (1905–1985) * Spottiswoode Aitken (1868–1933) *Maev Alexander (born 1948) * John Alford (born 1971) *Andrea Allan (born 1946) * Charlie Allan (born 1963) * Ronni Ancona (born 1966) * Dave Anderson (born 1945) * Rona Anderson (1926–2013) *David Ashton (born 1941) B * Shabana Bakhsh (born 1981) * Ian Bannen (1928–1999) * Lois de Banzie (1930–2021) * John Barrowman (born 1967) *Stanley Baxter (born 1926) * Johnny Beattie (1926–2020) * Maureen Beattie (born 1953) * Duncan Bell (born 1955) * John Bell (born 1997) * Margaret Bicknell (1681–1723) * Sean Biggerstaff (born 1983) * Isobel Black (born 1943) * Peter Blake (1948–2018) * Martin Boddey (1907–1975) * Mark Bonnar (born 1968) * Stuart Bowman * Billy Boyd (born 1968) * Kate Bracken (born 1990) * Joseph Brady (1928–2001) * Steven Brand (born 1969) * Paul Brannigan (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Ritchie
William Gordon Ritchie (27 September 1918 – 20 November 1998) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He studied MB ChB medicine at the University of St Andrews School of Medicine. He was a surgeon and physician by career. Ritchie represented the Dauphin electoral district where he won office in the 1968 federal election. He was re-elected in 1972, 1974 and 1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song .... After serving successive terms from the 28th to the 31st Canadian Parliaments, Ritchie left federal politics in 1980 and did not campaign in that year's national elections. Ritchie also made one early unsuccessful attempt to win the Dauphin seat in the 1957 federal election. He died in 1998 at Dauphin. References Extern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Stephen Ritchie
Rear-Admiral George Stephen Ritchie CB DSC (30 October 1914 – 8 May 2012) was a British admiral noted for his cartographic and hydrographic work. Naval career Ritchie was born in Burnley, 1914, of Scottish parents, Sir Douglas Ritchie and Lady Margaret Stephen Ritchie. He was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth from the age of 13, from where he went to sea at the age of 17. In 1936 he joined the Surveying Service, being appointed to the old coal-burning surveying ship, , operating in the South China Sea. During the Second World War the then Lieutenant Ritchie was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) for bravery whilst surveying beaches in North Africa behind the enemy lines. From that time he worked continuously in that branch of the Royal Navy travelling all over the World and commanding four of HM surveying Ships: on a world circling voyage with scientists on board; HMNZS ''Lachlan'', the New Zealand survey ship; , in the Persian Gulf and in the West I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colgate Maroon-News
''The Colgate Maroon-News'' is the student newspaper of Colgate University in Hamilton, New York Hamilton is a town in Madison County, New York, United States. The population was 6,690 at the 2010 census. The town is named after American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. The Town of Hamilton contains a village also named Hamilton, the s .... It is the oldest college weekly in America, having been founded in 1868 as ''Madisonesis''. History The newspaper traces its origins back to 1846, when ''Hamilton Student'' was founded by student and abolitionist George Gavin Ritchie as "a semi-monthly mirror of Religion, Literature, Science and Art." The newspaper was shut down and Ritchie expelled by the college, then called Madison University, after he published an editorial criticizing New York residents for opposing African-American male suffrage, though he continued to publish the ''Hamilton Student'' as "''The Hamilton Student and Christian Reformer''." For over two decades, ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George G
George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States * George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States * George V, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1910-1936 * George VI, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1936-1952 * Prince George of Wales * George Papagheorghe also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George Harrison, an English musician and singer-songwriter Places South Africa * George, Western Cape ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa * George, Missouri * George, Washington * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Characters * George (Peppa Pig), a 2-year-old pig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ritchie (politician)
Sir George Ritchie KCMG (14 December 1864 – 7 August 1944) was a South Australian politician. During his parliamentary career he held every ministerial position and was a minister in both Houses, a feat rarely equalled. History Ritchie was the third son of Captain James Ritchie (1832 – 23 April 1881) and his wife Alison (12 August 1829 – 20 February 1913). Captain James Ritchie, and five others left Scotland for Australia in the early 1850s sailing the ''Lioness'', a 75-ton River Mersey steamer for Captain Cadell, then became a shipowner trading on the River Murray and Murrumbidgee, when his name was as familiar as those of William Randell and Cadell. One of his feats was to captain the ''Gundagai'', a river boat of 129 feet length, to New Zealand with gold to finance the Maori war. Ritchie was born at Goolwa in 1864, was educated at the Echuca Grammar School, and after four years' apprenticeship with a draper, joined his father on the river. In 1884, two years aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Ritchie
Fiona Karen Ritchie MBE (born 1960) is a Scottish radio broadcaster best known as the producer and host of ''The Thistle & Shamrock'', an hour-long Celtic music program that airs weekly throughout the United States on National Public Radio (NPR). She also curates ThistleRadio, a 24/7 web-based music channel devoted to new and classic music from Celtic roots, and is co-author of ''The New York Times'' Best Seller ''Wayfaring Strangers''. The radio program has won numerous awards since its inception in 1981, offering a fusion of traditional and contemporary Celtic sounds, interwoven with interviews, in-studio performances and Ritchie's own trademark commentary in her "soft Scots" dialect. Early years Ritchie was born and raised in Scotland, where she went to the University of Stirling for her undergraduate education. While there, she was invited to spend one semester in North Carolina in the United States, which was when she first heard NPR. After graduating in Scotland, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Samuel Ritchie
Edward Samuel Ritchie (1814–1895), an American inventor and physicist, is considered to be the most innovative instrument maker in nineteenth-century America, making important contributions to both science and navigation. Early life and career Ritchie was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts on August 18, 1814, the son of John and Elizabeth Eliot Ritchie. As a young child Ritchie displayed a great aptitude for both the arts and mechanical sciences. After working as an amateur sculptor, he founded a business in 1850 with N.B. Chamberlain to manufacture mechanical and electrical instruments. Chamberlain eventually left, and Ritchie continued the business alone. Inventions and Innovations In the early 1850s, after examining an example of an electric induction coil made by German instrument maker Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, which produced a small two-inch (50 mm) electric spark when energized, Ritchie perceived that it could be made more efficient and produce a longer spark by r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Ritchie (engineer)
Edgar Gowar Ritchie (15 July 1871–23 July 1956) was a hydraulic engineer who worked for the Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works for the majority of his career. He was the engineer of water supply from 1908 until his retirement in 1936. In this role he was responsible for the construction of the Maroondah, O'Shannassy and Silvan reservoirs and their associated aqueducts. In 1943, Ritchie was awarded the Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal from the Institution of Engineers Australia Engineers Australia (EA) is an Australian professional body and not-for-profit organisation whose purpose is to advance the science and practice of engineering for the benefit of the community. Engineers Australia is Australia's recognized org .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ritchie, Edgar 1871 births 1956 deaths Engineers from Melbourne Australian civil engineers People from Kew, Victoria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
