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William Johnstone Ritchie

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on September 21, 1843, to Martha Strang. She was the daughter of John Strang, a shipping merchant from St. Andrews. Martha Ritchie died in 1847. A son and a daughter were born to this marriage. Ritchie's second marriage was at Saint John, New Brunswick on May 5, 1856, to Grace Vernon Nicholson
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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
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Sir William and Lady Ritchie are buried in Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa.
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of the court, and the second-longest serving Chief Justice to date.
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and went to study law in Halifax in the office of his brother,
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and Elizabeth Wildman Johnstone. He graduated from the
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Ritchie was twice married. He was first married at
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William Johnston Ritchie
The Honourable

Chief Justice of Canada
John A. Macdonald
William Buell Richards
Samuel Henry Strong
Supreme Court of Canada
Alexander Mackenzie
John Wellington Gwynne
Chief Justice of New Brunswick
Robert Parker
John Campbell Allen
Annapolis Royal
Nova Scotia
Ottawa
Ontario
Beechwood Cemetery
Supreme Court of Canada
chief justice
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
Thomas Ritchie
Pictou Academy
John William Ritchie
called to the bar
Nova Scotia
Saint John, New Brunswick
Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
Liberal
Supreme Court of New Brunswick

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