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See also:FINDLAY, See also:JOHN See also:RITCHIE (1824—1898) , Scottish newspaper owner and philanthropist, was See also:born at See also:Arbroath on the 21st of See also:October 1824, and was educated at See also:Edinburgh University. He entered first the See also:publishing See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office and then the editorial See also:department of the Scotsman, became a partner in the See also:paper in 1868, and in 1870 inherited the greater See also:part of the See also:property from his See also:great See also:uncle, John Ritchie, the founder. The large increase in the See also:influence and circulation of the paper was in a great measure due to his activity and direction, and it brought him a See also:fortune, which he spent during his lifetime in public benefaction. He presented to the nation the Scottish See also:National Portrait See also:Gallery, opened in Edinburgh in 1889, and costing over £70,000; and he contributed largely to the collections of the Scottish National Gallery. He held numerous offices in antiquarian, educational and charitable See also:societies, showing his keen See also:interest in these matters, but he avoided See also:political office and refused the offer of a baronetcy. The freedom of Edinburgh was given him in 1896. He died at Aberlour, See also:Banffshire, on the 16th of October 1898.
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