Anthony Elliot Ritchie

Prof Anthony Elliot Ritchie FRSE FRCPE LLD (1915–1997) was a 20th century Scottish physiologist and educator.

Life

He was born at 20 Upper Gray Street in south Edinburgh on 30 March 1915 the only son of James Ritchie FRSE and his wife, Jessie Jane Elliot. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy 1922 to 1930.[1]

He studied Science at Aberdeen University graduating MA in 1933 and BSc in 1936. He then went to Edinburgh University to study Medicine, graduating MB ChB in 1940. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War 1942 to 1945, attached to the Territorial Army. This role was both part-time and Edinburgh-based, allowing him to continue other academic pursuits. He was a Carnegie Research Scholar 1940-41 and from 1942 began lecturing in Physiology at Edinburgh University being promoted to Senior lecturer in 1946.

In 1948 the University of St Andrews gave him a professorship, where he continued until 1969.

In 1951 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Norman Davidson, Robert Garry, Ernest Cruickshank, and Sir James Learmonth. He served as Secretary to the Society 1960 to 1965 and was twice Vice President: 1965-66 and 1976-79, being General Secretary inbetween. He won the Society's Bicentenary Medal in 1983.[2]

In 1969 he became Secretary and Treasurer to the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. He was also a Director of the Royal Observatory Trust. St Andrews University gave him an honorary doctorate (DSc) in 1972 and the University of Strathclyde awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1985.

He retired in 1986 and died in Edinburgh on 14 September 1997.

Family

In 1941 he married Elizabeth Lambie Knox. They had one son and three daughters.

Publications

References

  1. ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Anthony Elliot ritchie
  2. ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.


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