George Ritchie Kinloch (c. 1796 – 19 April 1877) was a Scottish lawyer, philanthropist and antiquarian best known today for publishing a collection of ballads.

Life

Kinloch was probably born in

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, the sixth of a family of eight, where his father George Kinloch was serving as Deputy Judge Advocate with the Portland Regiment and as a Master of

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. The family soon returned to

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; where his father died 22 April 1802, aged 60. Educated as a lawyer, George Ritchie Kinloch worked as a clerk for several advocates depute. Later he was employed by

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. He was appointed assistant registrar of deeds at

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in 1842, and served as registrar of deeds from 1851 to 1869. He was the treasurer of the Patterson and Pope relief fund for the poor for many years.

Literary career

Kinloch's assistance in compiling the supplementary volumes of Jamieson's dictionary (1825) was acknowledged by the author. In 1827 he published his ''Ancient Scottish Ballads, Recovered from tradition'', listed by Sir

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among the "more important" of later collections of ballads.''Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border'', Walter Scott, ed. T. F. Henderson, Edinburgh: Wm. Blackwood and Sons, 1902, p. xxi A ''Ballad Book'' published the same year was republished in 1885. He also edited in 1830 several seventeenth-century Scottish texts for the

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and in 1837 one for the Abbotsford Club. He published a ''Reliquiæ Antiquæ Scoticæ'' in 1848.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kinloch, George Ritchie 19th-century Scottish lawyers Scottish folk-song collectors 19th-century Scottish antiquarians 19th-century Jamaican people 1790s births 1877 deaths 19th-century British musicologists