William Ritchie

(1781-1831)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Ritchie William (1781-1831) Journalist DNB: Ritchie, William (1781-1831), newspaper editor and proprietor LBT ID: WiRitch1831	B/BAP: 1781 DIED: 1831-02-04
SOURCES: DNB
The son of a flax-dresser, he practiced law in Edinburgh before becoming one of the founders, and literary editor, of The Scotsman newspaper (1817).
REFERENCES TO William Ritchie: Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 18: Literary List Found 1: ¶ 11 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. IV 1822 Found 5: ¶ 3 ¶ 10 ¶ 11 ¶ 13 ¶ 16 Ch. V 1822 Found 4: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 8 ¶ 10 Ch. VI 1822 Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 9 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1812-1819 Found 2: ¶ 14 ¶ 18