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Thomas Ritchie (other)
Thomas Ritchie may refer to: * Thomas Ritchie (judge) (1777–1852), lawyer, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia * Thomas Ritchie (journalist) Thomas Ritchie (November 5, 1778 – July 3, 1854) of Virginia was a leading American newspaper journalist, editor and publisher. Biography He read law and medicine, but, instead of practicing either, set up a bookstore in Richmond, Virgin ... (1778–1854), American newspaper journalist, editor and publisher * Thomas Ritchie (psychiatric survivor), founded the Scottish Union of Mental Patients {{hndis, Ritchie, Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Ritchie (judge)
Thomas Ritchie (September 21, 1777 – November 13, 1852) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Annapolis County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1806 to 1824. He was born in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, the son of John Ritchie and Alicia Maria Le Cain. He studied law with Thomas Henry Barclay and took over Barclay's practice in 1799. Ritchie married Elizabeth Wildman Johnston, who was the daughter of Elizabeth Lichtenstein, in 1807. In 1823, he married Elizabeth Best after his first wife died in a bedroom fire. In 1824, he resigned his seat in the provincial assembly after he was named judge in the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the western division. In 1831, he was named president of the Court of General Sessions for the western district. He served on the bench until 1841. He also was president of the board of health and lieutenant-colonel in the militia. Ritchie married Anne Bond, the daughter of Joseph Norman Bond, in 1831 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Ritchie (journalist)
Thomas Ritchie (November 5, 1778 – July 3, 1854) of Virginia was a leading American newspaper journalist, editor and publisher. Biography He read law and medicine, but, instead of practicing either, set up a bookstore in Richmond, Virginia in 1803. He bought out the Republican newspaper the ''Richmond Enquirer'' in 1804, and made it a financial and political success, as editor and publisher for 41 years. The paper appeared three times a week. Thomas Jefferson said of the ''Enquirer'': "I read but a single newspaper, Ritchie's Enquirer, the best that is published or ever has been published in America." Ritchie wrote the stirring partisan editorials, clipped the news from Washington and New York papers, and did most of the local reporting himself. For 25 years he was state printer, a method by which his political friends subsidized their most articulate voice. Ritchie was a leader of the "Richmond Junto" that controlled the Republican state committee, originally with Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
