James Ritchie

James Ritchie was born in Duns, Berwickshire, in 1864, the son of the Revd W Ritchie of the United Presbyterian Church. He graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1895. After early work in Oxford in bacteriology and pathology, he was appointed Professor in 1905 and Fellow of New College, Oxford. In 1907 he became Director of the Laboratory of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and was elected a Fellow of the College in 1909. He was appointed Chair of Bacteriology at the University of Edinburgh in 1913. His publications include 'Manual of Bacteriology' (1897) and 'Textbook of General Pathology' (1913). He died in 1923.