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John Ritchie
Books by John Ritchie
Wentworths
Father and Son
By John Ritchie
D'Arcy Wentworth was born in Ireland in 1762. While living in London, he was tried four times on nine charges of highway robbery. He reached New South Wales in 1790 and worked as an assistant-surgeon on Norfolk Island. Returning to Sydney in 1796, he rose to be principal surgeon, superintendent o...
Lachlan Macquarie
A Biography
By John Ritchie
'Ritchie has provided an exciting and dramatic account of the life and work of Macquarie. We learn, in contrast to the antiseptic treatment of the standard text books, that Macquarie was a man of strong passions, beliefs, plans and ambitions which drove him to hobnob with polite London society, t...