Mr. Thomas Thompson Ritchee , who was a member of the Dunedin City Council during the year 1880, was born on the 19th of November, 1838, at Sanquhar, Scotland, and is the only suriving son of the late Mr. Thomas Ritchie, a forester. He was educated at the parish school in his native place, and was afterwards engaged as an accountant in the British Linen Company's Bank at Melrose. In 1865 he sailed for Victoria, Australia, where he entered the service of the London Chartered Bank, in which he was engaged in the various capacities of ledger keeper, teller, and accountant at the Pleasant Creek, Stawell, and Ararat branches. Mr. Ritchie sailed for New Zealand in 1866, and immediately on arrival joined the Bank of Otago, of which he was successively manager at Hamilton's and Switzers—the latter now known as Waikaia—and Balclutha. At Balclutha he remained in the service of the National Bank when it took over the Bank of Otago, but later on the joined the Colonial Bank at that place. In 1878 he removed to Dunedin, and entered into business as a company page 112 manager in partnership with the late Mr. A. Bartleman. For many years he carried on business in this capacity, but now lives in retirement at Mornington. Mr. Ritchie has always taken an active interest in local public matters in the various districts in which he has lived. He was married in November, 1868, to Miss Helen Ritchie, of Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Scotland, and has a grown-up family of one son and three daughter.