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Article: Obituary: Professor David Ritchie
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 8, 1994
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Horace David Ritchie, surgeon: born Falkirk 24 September 1920;
Professor of Surgery, London University 1964-85 (Emeritus);
Director, Surgical Unit, London Hospital 1964-85; Dean, London
Hospital Medical College and Dental School 1982-83; married 1953
Jennifer Prentice (three sons; marriage dissolved), 1990 Elizabeth
(Peggy) Thompson; died Tenterden, Kent 21 December 1993.
DAVID RITCHIE was perhaps the most brilliant of an outstanding
generation of Edinburgh surgeons who were raised under the tutelage
of Sir James Learmonth, and who dominated British surgery for the
third quarter of this century. He was a complex person, whose true
qualities were not apparent at first sight, and whose ...