- Title
- R. B. Ritchie and Sons and their unsung contribution to Australian economics
- Creator
- Millmow, Alex
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/89535
- Identifier
- vital:9297
- Identifier
- http://library.federation.edu.au/record=b2188204
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781876478209
- Abstract
- A little piece of Australiana passed away earlier this year. The historic sheep station at Blackwood, the family homestead of the Ritchies for more 170 years near Penshurst, Western Victoria, was sold to Chinese investors. We all know that Australia no longer rides on the sheep's back and the selling of Blackwood is yet another sign of the passing of the pastoral economy. This story involves an element of Australian economic history, a Scottish-Australian family and an enduring public gift they left to an Australian university. This Ritchie family were committed philanthropists and, apart from a school, a public hall and a war memorial, all at Penshurst, one of their gifts is still in evidence todya, namely, the Ritchie Research Chair in economics at the University of Melbourne. How did that come about it? It involved the relationship between a Scottish-born grazier who made his fortune here and his two sons born here.
- Publisher
- Ballarat Heritage Services Publishing
- Relation
- Scots under the Southern Cross p. 89-96
- Rights
- Copyright © BHS Publishing - Design, Layout and Index Copyright © rests with the individual authors
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Scottish immigrants; Economic networks; Cultural networks; Australia; Essays
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