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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Ritchie    
First Name(s)  William    
Birth Year  1816    
Death Year  1862    
Entry  Born 1816 : son of John Ritchie, whose wife was a daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, the grandfather of the novelist : educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge : called to the bar by the Inner Temple : joined the bar in Calcutta about 1840 : Advocate-General of Bengal : Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University : Member of the Supreme
Council of the Governor-General from Sep. 14, 1861, to his death on March 22, 1862. A marble monument, by J. H. Foley, was erected to his memory in St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta. The following is an extract from the inscription (written by Thackeray) : To a clear intellect and sweet and generous temper, England had added her highest education and God His grace. Public-spirited, wise and beloved, his career was one of rare success, breeding no envy. His death was felt to be a calamity, alike public and private.""     
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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