George Wight Ritchie (1889 – 6 December 1960) was an English professional footballer who played as a forward in the Football League for Brighton & Hove Albion and Reading.
[2] Ritchie was born in 1889 in West Derby, Lancashire,[2] which later became part of Liverpool.
He was on the books of Preston North End without appearing in their league team, played Southern League football for Norwich City and Brighton & Hove Albion, guested for Liverpool during the First World War,[3] and played non-league football for clubs including Rossendale United, Chester and Northfleet United.
[1][5] Ritchie served as a guardsman in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War.
[1][6] This biographical article related to association football in England, about a forward born in the 1880s, is a stub.