Peter Ritchie Ritchie-Calder, Baron Ritchie-Calder, was a Scottish socialist writer, journalist and academic.
12 Facts About Ritchie Calder
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Peter Ritchie Calder was born on 1 July 1906 in Forfar, Scotland, the youngest of four children of David Lindsay Calder, a linen worker, and Georgina Ritchie, the daughter of a master mason.
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Ritchie Calder was educated at Forfar Academy, leaving the school at the age of 16.
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Ritchie Calder wrote propaganda posters and leaflets and speeches for allied leaders.
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Ritchie Calder was a member of the 1941 Committee, a group of liberal politicians, writers and other people of influence in the United Kingdom.
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Ritchie Calder worked with the United Nations and was president of the National Peace Council and of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
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Ritchie Calder worked for the News Chronicle newspaper as science editor.
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In 1955, Ritchie Calder recorded and released an album on Folkways Records entitled Science in Our Lives.
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Ritchie Calder was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto.
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Ritchie Calder was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Edinburgh from 1961 to 1967, and received the 1960 Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science.
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Ritchie Calder received a life peerage in the 1966 Birthday Honours.
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Ritchie Calder was the grandfather of travel writer Simon Calder and the actor, writer and comedienne Gowan Calder.