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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
author of novels about the Old West
Scottish clan.
- Clan Johnstone, a Scottish clan, whose chief has the noble title Earl of Annandale and Hartfell
People with a variant form of the surname.
- William Johnstone Milne (1892–1917), Canadian World War I soldier
- William Johnstone Ritchie (1813 – 92), Chief Justice of the Canadian Supreme Court
- George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911), Irish physicist; introduced the term "electron"
Fictional people with the surname.
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