Ralph Gerald Ritson
Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Gerald Ritson (1880 – October 25, 1966) was a member of the Inniskilling Dragoons and a champion polo player with a ten-goal handicap.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]He was born in 1880 in England to Utrick Alexander Ritson, of Calf Hall, Muggleswick Park, Co. Durham, and Annie Ridley. In 1911 he won the Roehampton Trophy with fellow players Jean de Madre and Leslie St. Clair Cheape. That same year he won the King's Coronation Cup with Leslie St. Clair Cheape, Major Shah Mirza Beg of the Hyderabad Lancers, and Vivian Noverre Lockett.[3]
He captained the British polo team in the 1913 International Polo Cup at the Meadowbrook Polo Club and his teammates were Leslie St. Clair Cheape and Vivian Noverre Lockett.[2][4]
On June 1, 1926, he married Lady Kitty Edith Blanche Ogilvy,[5] daughter of David Ogilvy, 11th Earl of Airlie and Mabell Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie.
He died on October 25, 1966, in South Africa where he was working for Wiggins Teape.[6][7]
References
[edit]- ^ Horace A. Laffaye (12 September 2009). The Evolution of Polo. p. 64. ISBN 9780786454150.
The first 10-goalers were ... Vyvyan (known as Vivian) Noverre Lockett, 17th Lancers, and Capt. Ralph Gerald Ritson, Inniskilling Dragoons. Capt.
- ^ a b Polo in the United States. Arcadia Publishing. 2011. p. 67. ISBN 9780786480074.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh (1912). "Polo". Britannica Yearbook. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ "Capt. Ritson Not To Play In Cup Polo. Leader of British Team Last June Will Not Come to America Next Year". The New York Times. 18 December 1913. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
- ^ "Kitty Edith Blanche Ogilvy". The New York Times. 1963. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
... secondly [married] Ralph Gerald Ritson, late Inniskllling Dragoons. ...
- ^ "Ralph Gerald Ritson Dies". Paper maker and British paper trade journal. 1966. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ "Ralph Gerald Ritson, 86". Pulp & Paper International. 1967. Retrieved 19 November 2012.