Joseph Ritchie

(1788 c.-1819)

NAME AUTHORITIES: DNB: Ritchie, Joseph (c.1788–1819), traveller in Africa LBT ID: JoRitch1819	B/BAP: 1788 DIED: 1819-11-20
SOURCES: DNB
York surgeon and African traveler who met John Keats and wrote a popular poem before departing on his fatal expedition to the Sahara.
REFERENCES TO Joseph Ritchie: John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 21 February 1818 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 3 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 7 March 1818 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Robert Southey to John Kenyon, 13 June 1818 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXIII. 1818 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter VI: 1818 Found 1: ¶ n1