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Alex A. Ritchie
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Alex A. Ritchie

Canongate, Scotland, 1816 - 1850, Canongate, Scotland
Biographyhttp://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014102887
found: The Scottish minstrel : the songs of Scotland subsequent to Burns, with memoirs of the poets, 1876: p. 302 (Alexander A. Ritchie; Alexander Abernethy Ritchie, author of "The wells o' wearie"; b. in the Canongate, Edinburgh in 1816; apprenticed as a house-painter; his pictures held a highly respectable place at the annual exhibitions of the Scottish Academy; illustrated some works of his friend James Ballantine; d. at St John's Hill, Canongate, Edinburgh, in 1850)
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Last Updated8/7/24