Sir William Johnstone Ritchie (October 28 1813 – September 25 1892) was one of the first judges appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada and became the second Chief Justice of the court and the longest serving Chief Justice to date.Ritchie was born in Annapolis Nova Scotia to Thomas Ritchie and Elizabeth Wildman Johnstone. He graduated from the Pictou Academy and went to study law in Halifax in the office of his brother John William Ritchie.
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