William Gordon Ritchie (27 September 1918 – 20 November 1998) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the

House of Commons of Canada The House of Commons of Canada (french: Chambre des communes du Canada) is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Crown and the Senate of Canada, they comprise the bicameral legislature of Canada. The House of Common ...

. He studied MB ChB medicine at the

University of St Andrews School of Medicine The University of St Andrews School of Medicine (formerly the Bute Medical School) is the school of medicine at the University of St Andrews in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland and the oldest medical school in Scotland. The medical school offers tw ...

. 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 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...

1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...

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.

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* * 1918 births 1998 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Manitoba People from Dauphin, Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs Alumni of the University of St Andrews {{Manitoba-politician-stub