James Hutton Ritchie

James Hutton Ritchie I

Dr James (Jas) Hutton Ritchie I b. 6 Jan 1847 d. 15 Oct 1891 at sea returning from India Gravestone Inch Graveyard m. in India 1883 to Anne (Minnie) Ritchie Pretty b. 10 Jun 1856 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England (Surgeon Major IMS Civil Service, India, Died on way home from India, Indian Ocean		James Hutton Ritchie II b. 29 Jul 1883 in Cuddalore, Madras, India died of fever Nogales, Mexico Civil engineer
		Dorothy Ritchie b. 1885 in India unmarried

James and his brothers all attended Inch School under the Church Society, John McGlinnen, Master. James went on to attend Belfast Institution, living with his uncle James RITCHIE at Seaview Cottage, Antrim Road, Belfast, and later Queens College, Belfast, graduating in practical anatomy and physiology in 1865. On 1 Apr 1867 he received a commission as Assistant Surgeon in the Military Service, India and was assigned to the Madras 9th Presidency where he rose to the rank of Surgeon Major.

1865 James Hutton Ritchie - Queens College Belfast
General Prize Examination, April 1865
Practical Anatomy and Physiology

Name of Officer	Rank	Commission	Seniority	Presidency	Other Information
James Hutton RITCHIE, MD	Assistant Surgeon	1 Apr 1867	1 Apr 1867	Madras 9^th	Native Infantry

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

FILE - Assistant-Surgeons" Papers (Board of Examiners) - ref. IOR/L/MIL/9/400 - date: 1866-1868
Item: Ritchie, James Hutton [M 1867] - ref. IOR/L/MIL/9/400/138v-39, 184-87 [n.d.]

Belfast News January 1882
Patients of the Belfast Hospital for Sick Children were treated to a New Year's Day dinner through the kindness of Mrs. Ritchie, The Grove