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William Ritchie (merchant)
William Ritchie may refer to: * William Ritchie (barrister) (1817–1862), Advocate-General of Bengal * William Ritchie (editor) (1781–1831), editor of ''The Scotsman'' * William Ritchie (footballer) (1895–?), Scottish footballer * William Ritchie (moderator) (1758–1830), Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland * William Ritchie (physicist) (1790–1837), physicist * William E. Ritchie (died 1943), trick bicyclist * William Gordon Ritchie (1918–1998), Manitoba politician * Sir William Johnstone Ritchie (1813–1892), Chief Justice of Canada * William Thomas Ritchie (1873–1945), Scottish cardiologist * Bill Ritchie (1931–2010), cartoonist * Bill Ritchie (politician) (1927–2014), Canadian politician * Billy Ritchie (1936–2016), footballer * Billy Ritchie (musician) (born 1944), British keyboard player and composer * Willie Ritchie (golfer) (1884–1966), Scottish golfer See also * Willie Ritchie Willie Ritchie (born Gerhardt Anthony Steffen, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ritchie (barrister)
William Ritchie (1817–1862) was an English barrister, Advocate-General of Bengal from 1855 to 1862. Life William Ritchie was born at Southampton Row, London in 1817. His father John Ritchie was a Scottish-born merchant of Baltimore. His mother Charlotte Thackeray was aunt to William Makepeace Thackeray. The Thackeray family from Hadley had a long association with India, and her nephew was the novelist. Ritchie was educated at Eton College 1829 to 1835, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1835, graduating B.A. in 1839 and M.A. in 1842. After Cambridge, he entered the Inner Temple. He lived with his family in Albany Street, London while reading for the Bar. His father John was the director of a bank that failed in November 1841, causing the Ritchie family to leave for the continent, to escape creditors. Ritchie was called to the bar in 1842. He looked to the legal system of British India where he could earn an immediate income, rather than staying in Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ritchie (editor)
William Ritchie (1781 – 4 February 1831) was a Scottish lawyer, journalist and newspaper owner. Ritchie was born at Lundin Mill, Fife, where his father had a flax dressing business. At the age of 19 he moved to Edinburgh, and after some years employment in the offices of two firms of Writers to the Signet (solicitors), he became a member of the Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland in 1808. After contributing to various publications, including the ''Scots Magazine'', for a number of years, in 1816 he joined with Charles Maclaren, his elder brother John Ritchie and John Ramsay McCulloch in founding ''The Scotsman'' newspaper, the first number of which appeared the following year, Ritchie having suggest the title. Ritchie was joint editor of the paper with Charles Maclaren, concentrating on the literary content, with Maclaren attending to the political. During the fourteen years of his editorship, Ritchie himself contributed over one thousand articles to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ritchie (footballer)
William M Ritchie (born 1895) was a Scottish footballer who played for Dumbarton, Bury and Grimsby Town. His career was brought to an end in 1923 when he was implicated in a match fixing scandal from three years earlier when it was found Bury had accepted payments from Coventry City Coventry City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Coventry, West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. The team currently compete in the EFL Championship, Championship, the second tier of the English footbal ... to prevent the latter's relegation, and Ritchie was banned for life along with several others. The Stacey West, 17 November 2017 References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ritchie (moderator)
William Ritchie FRSE (1747–29 January 1830) was a Scottish minister who rose to be Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1801. Life He was born late in December 1747 the son of John Ritchie of Fowlis Wester. He was baptised on 3 January 1748. He was educated at the local parish school. He became a schoolteacher at Newtyle in 1763 and schoolteacher at Fowlis Wester in 1766. He then studied at the University of St Andrews. He was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Fordoun in 1774. Unable to find a position he became tutor to the family of Lord Inverurie and travelled with him of on a tour of Europe until 1779. Returning to Scotland he declined positions at both Trinity Gask and Dundee. In 1789 he went on a second Grand Tour, this time with the sons of Oswald of Auchencruive. In 1794 he was ordained as minister of Tarbolton and translated to Kilwinning in 1798. In 1798 the University of Glasgow awarded him an honorary doctorate (DD). In 1801 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ritchie (physicist)
William Ritchie (1790?–1837) was a Scottish physicist. He was noted as an ingenious experimentalist. Life Born about 1790, he was educated for the Church of Scotland, and was licensed to preach; but he abandoning the church for the teaching profession. He became rector of the Royal Academy of Tain, in Ross-shire. After saving a little money, he provided a substitute to perform his duties, and went to Paris. There he attended the lectures of Louis Jacques Thénard, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, and Jean-Baptiste Biot. He soon acquired skill in devising and performing experiments in natural philosophy. Ritchie's publications led to his appointment to the professorship of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution, where he delivered a course of probationary lectures in 1829. In 1832 he was appointed professor of natural philosophy in London University. Ritchie was subsequently engaged on experiments on the manufacture of glass for optical purposes, and a commission was appointed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William E
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name should b ... [...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] |
William Johnstone Ritchie
Sir William Johnstone Ritchie (October 28, 1813 – September 25, 1892) was one of the first judges appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada. He became the second Chief Justice of the court, and the second-longest serving Chief Justice to date. Life and career Ritchie was born in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia to Thomas Ritchie and Elizabeth Wildman Johnstone. He graduated from the Pictou Academy and went to study law in Halifax in the office of his brother, John William Ritchie. He was called to the bar of Nova Scotia in 1837 but moved to Saint John, New Brunswick, and was called to the bar of that province the following year. In 1846 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick. In keeping with his pledge to resign if a fellow Liberal candidate failed to win a by-election, he gave up his seat in 1851, only to be re-elected three years later. In 1855 he left politics to accept an appointment to the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, and 10 years later he was na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thomas Ritchie
Professor William Thomas Ritchie FRSE PRCPE LLD OBE (3 November 1873 – 7 February 1945) was a Scottish cardiologist who served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1935 to 1937. Life He was born on 3 November 1873 in Edinburgh, the son of Robert Brown Ritchie (1829-1906) and his wife Alicia Julia Scarth. The family lived at 13 Danube Street in the Stockbridge district. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy 1884 to 1890 then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating MB ChB in 1896. He did further postgraduate study in Vienna. He gained his MD in 1899. He had a 40-year career in Edinburgh mainly at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and Deaconess Hospital. In 1905 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were George Alexander Gibson, Diarmid Noel Paton, Daniel John Cunningham and Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer. In the First World War, he served as Medical Officer attached to the 1/3rd Scottish Horse a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Ritchie
Bill Ritchie (1 August 1931 – 25 January 2010) was a Scottish cartoonist. He is known for work on comics published by D. C. Thomson. Biography Born in Glasgow, Ritchie attended the Glasgow School of Art, where he learnt little about cartoons or comics; instead, he taught himself by practising from local comics artists Jack Lindsay, Bud Neill, Jimmy Malcolm, Harry Smith and Bill Tait. It was Malcolm who suggested he try to draw comics for D. C. Thomson in Dundee. While serving in the army in Korea, he submitted his first cartoons to the publisher, which were printed in ''The Weekly News''. His first comic strip was '' Clumsy Claude'' in ''The Beano'', and for many years he drew ''Baby Crockett'' in the '' Beezer''. Between 1957 and 1964 Ritchie drew the illustrations for "The Glad Mag" an annual magazine produced by students of Queen's College, Dundee as part of their charities campaign. Copies of these magazines are held by University of Dundee Archive Services. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Ritchie (politician)
William Samuel Ritchie (February 25, 1927 – February 7, 2014) was a Canadian businessman entrepreneur and politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1979 to 1986, as a Social Credit member for the constituency of Central Fraser Valley. Biography During World War II, Ritchie lied about his age and joined the British Royal Navy. He sold kindling door-to-door, giving his mother most of his earnings to help with family expenses. Ritchie farmed in Scotland and eventually moved to County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland where he married Maud Armstrong and had their first child. In 1952, Ritchie left aboard the ship ''Empress of Canada'' and settled in Winnipeg there they had their second child. He held numerous jobs all in agriculture except for a short time at Trans Canada Airlines and as a real estate agent. His career took him back and forth between Manitoba and British Columbia. Eventually, Ritchie moved to Burnaby British Columbia there they had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Ritchie
William Ritchie (11 September 1936 – 10 March 2016) was a Scottish professional footballer who was best known for his time with Rangers. Ritchie started his career at local side Bathgate Thistle before moving to Rangers in 1955. He played both legs of Rangers 1961 European Cup Winners' Cup Final defeat to Fiorentina. He left Rangers in 1967 and joined Partick Thistle Partick Thistle Football Club are a professional association football, football club from Glasgow, Scotland. Despite their name, the club are based at Firhill Stadium in the Maryhill area of the city, and have not played in Partick since 1908. .... Ritchie died on 10 March 2016, aged 79. References External links * * 1936 births 2016 deaths Scottish footballers Scotland men's international footballers Scottish Football League players Men's association football goalkeepers Bathgate Thistle F.C. players Rangers F.C. players Partick Thistle F.C. players Motherwell F.C. players Stranraer F.C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
