Arthur David RitchieFRSE ((1891-06-22)22 June 1891 –(1967-03-12)12 March 1967) was a British chemical physiologist and philosopher.[1]
He was bornOxford on 22 June 1891 the son of ProfDavid George Ritchie. The family moved toSt Andrews in 1894 when his father was given a new professorship there.
Ritchie was educated atFettes College, then studied Science at theUniversity of St Andrews and Philosophy atTrinity College, Cambridge.[1] Qualified as a chemist, he served as an official chemist in theRoyal Naval Air Service (looking at gas for airships) inWorld War I.
He was elected a fellow ofTrinity College, Cambridge with a dissertation onscientific method, but shortly afterwards moved to theUniversity of Manchester, where he was appointed lecturer in biological chemistry in 1922 and lecturer in physiological chemistry in 1924.[2] From 1937 to 1945 he held the Sir Samuel Hall chair as Professor of Philosophy atManchester University. In 1945 he moved to theUniversity of Edinburgh as Professor of Logic and Metaphysics.[3]
In 1946 he was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were SirAlexander Gray,James Pickering Kendall,Douglas Guthrie and SirEdmund Taylor Whittaker.[4]
He retired in 1960 and died on 12 March 1967.
In 1921 he married Katharine Victoria Ponsonby.
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