Background
He was born at Paisley in Renfrewshire to dyer John Ritchie and Barbara Henderson.
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Robert Ritchie
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Career
He spent eighteen months at the Turon goldfields before becoming an apprentice blacksmith. In 1857 he took over the family business, and opened a new branch at Wickham, also merging with a Clyde-based firm. He retired from the business in 1884.
A Parramatta alderman, Ritchie was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1889 as the member for Central Cumberland.
A Free Trader, he was re-elected in 1891 but died at Auburn shortly afterwards.
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Nationality
Scottish