Category:Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie

**Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie**
	writer, naval officer and press secretary to George VI
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Date of birth	1886
Date of death	1967
Pseudonym	Bartimeus;
Country of citizenship	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; United Kingdom;
Occupation	writer; naval officer; press secretary;
Position held	press secretary (George VI, 1944–);
Award received	Knight of the Legion of Honour (1918); Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (1939); Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1944);
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Sir Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie

Pseudonym: Bartimeus

Sir Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie (1886-1967). His birth name was Ricci, anglicized by deed poll in 1941. He served in the Royal Navy from 1901 until the Second World War and retired as captain of the royal yacht. He was press secretary to King George VI from 1944 to 1947. The biblical Bartimaeus was a blind beggar cured by Jesus (Mark 10); Ritchie was blind in one eye.^[1]

Captain Sir Lewis Ritchie