TENNIS PLAYER

Major Ritchie

1870 - 1955

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Major Josiah George Ritchie (18 October 1870 – 28 February 1955) was a tennis player from Great Britain. Major was his first name, not a military title. He was born in Westminster, educated at Brighton College and died in Ashford, Middlesex. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Major Ritchie is the 24th most popular tennis player (up from 341st in 2019), the 977th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,665th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Tennis Player.

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Major Ritchie ranks 24 out of 1,569. Before him are Helen Wills, Stan Smith, Boris Becker, Ion Țiriac, John McEnroe, and Chris Evert. After him are Arthur Ashe, Guillermo Vilas, Charlotte Cooper, Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, Jan Kodeš, and Mats Wilander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Major Ritchie ranks 30. Before him are Josef Hoffmann, Clara Immerwahr, John Boland, Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, Georgy Gapon, and Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. After him are Pierre Louÿs, Ernst Barlach, Reginald Lee, D. T. Suzuki, Charlotte Cooper, and E. M. Antoniadi. Among people deceased in 1955, Major Ritchie ranks 32. Before him are Hermann Weyl, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein, Michael Chekhov, Mihály Károlyi, and Leonid Govorov. After him are Oswald Avery, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Cordell Hull, Rodolphe Seeldrayers, Alexandros Papagos, and Yves Tanguy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Major Ritchie ranks 977 out of 8,785. Before him are John Dryden (1631), Richard Stone (1913), Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (1156), Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848), David James (1970), and Pat Hitchcock (1928). After him are Robert Peel (1788), Brian Eno (1948), Natasha Richardson (1963), Charles Spurgeon (1834), Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868), and John A. Hobson (1858).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among tennis players born in United Kingdom, Major Ritchie ranks 2. Before him are Fred Perry (1909). After him are Charlotte Cooper (1870), Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878), Ann Jones (1938), William Renshaw (1861), Dorothy Round (1909), Reginald Doherty (1872), Laurence Doherty (1875), Andy Murray (1987), Arthur Gore (1868), and Kathleen McKane Godfree (1896).

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