James Ewing Ritchie Explained
| James Ewing Ritchie |
| Birth Date: | 1 May 1820 |
| Birth Place: | Wrentham, Suffolk, England |
| Death Date: | 1898 |
| Nationality: | English |
| Other Names: | Christopher Crayon |
| Occupation: | Writer |
James Ewing Ritchie (1 May 1820 – 1898) was an English journalist and writer.
Born in Wrentham, Suffolk, the son of Reverend Andrew Ritchie, he was educated at Coward College[1] and University College, London. He became an author of travel books and political biographies. Seven of his books were about nineteenth-century London.
Bibliography
- Northern antiquities (1847)
- Freehold land societies; their history, present position, and claims (1853)
- The new Sunday liquor law vindicated (1855)
- The public-house trade as it is: or An epitome of the evidence taken before a committee of the house of commons in the parliamentary sessions of 1853-4 (1855)
- Ratcliffe-Highway (1857)
- The London pulpit (1858)
- The night side of London (1858)
- Here and there in London (1859)
- About London (1860)
- Modern statesmen, or sketches from the strangers' gallery of the house of commons (1861)
- The life of Richard Cobden: a biography (1865)
- The life and times of viscount Palmerston (1866)
- British senators: or, political sketches, past and present (1869)
- The religious life of London (1870)
- The life and discoveries of David Livingstone (1876)
- On the track of the pilgrim fathers; or: holidays in Holland (1876)
- The cruise of the Elena; or, yachting in the Hebrides (1877)
- The life and discoveries of David Livingstone L.L.D., F.R.G.S. (1877)
- Christopher Crayon's Christmas stories (1881)
- Imperialism in South Africa (1881)
- Famous city men (1884)
- To Canada with emigrants: a record of actual experiences (1885)
- The life of the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone (1886)
- Pictures of Canadian life: a record of actual experiences (1886)
- The spring at Bournemouth (1886)
- Hydropathy and health: or, sketches of hydropathic establishments (1888)
- Our Premiers. From Walpole to Salisbury (1888)
- An Australian ramble, or, a summer in Australia (1890)
- Brighter South Africa: or life at the Cape and Natal (1892)
- East Anglia: personal recollections and historical associations (1893)
- Some of our east coast towns (1893)
- Crying for the light or fifty years ago (1896)
- The Cities of the Dawn: Naples - Athens - Pompeii - Constantinople (1897)
- Christopher Crayon's recollections (1898)
- The real Gladstone: an anecdotal biography (1898)
Notes and References
- Encyclopedia: Coward College (1833-1850) . Simon N. . Dixon . June 2011 . Dissenting Academies Online: Database and Encyclopedia . Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies, Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature in English . 2019-02-03 . 4 February 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190204065758/https://dissacad.english.qmul.ac.uk/sample1.php?parameter=academyretrieve&alpha=40 . dead .
