John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and professor of mining (died 1957)

John Anthony Sydney Ritson

British Lions & England international rugby union player

John Anthony Sydney Ritson DSO & Bar, was an English mines inspector and engineer who became professor of mining at Leeds University and at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London. In his early life he was a rugby union player of note playing international rugby for…