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Ralph Ritson

Died
  
1966

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.

Biography

He was born in 1880 in England to Utrick Alexander Ritson 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.

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.

On June 1, 1926 he married Kitty Edith Blanche Ogilvy.

He died on October 25, 1966 in South Africa where he was working for Wiggins Teape.

References

Ralph Gerald Ritson Wikipedia