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Person
Authorized form of name
Ritchie, Elizabeth, 1941-2001
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Description area
Dates of existence
1941-2001
History
Elizabeth Stewart Ritchie was born in 1941, the daughter of Hon. Roland Ritchie, former Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, and Mary (Wylde). She was descended from a long line of prominent Nova Scotia families, including the Ritchies, Almons, Stewarts and Byles. She was educated at McGill University and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and completed a doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris and did post-graduate studies there. She was an art history professor for many years at the University of Ottawa. She died on 9 December 2001 at the age of 60.