query: Where was Sir Harry Ricardo born?
passage: Harry Ricardo
Harry Ricardo was born at 13 Bedford Square, London, in 1885, the eldest of three children, and only son of Halsey Ricardo, the architect, and his wife Catherine Jane, daughter of Sir Alexander Meadows Rendel, a civil engineer. Ricardo was descended from a brother of the famous political economist David Ricardo, a Sephardi Jew of Portuguese origin. He was one of the first people in England to see an automobile when his grandfather purchased one in 1898. He was from a relatively wealthy family and educated at Rugby School. In October 1903 he joined Trinity College, Cambridge as a civil engineering student. Ricardo had been using tools and building engines since the age of ten.[2]
passage: Harry E. Richter
Harry Richter was born in Vermillion in Ohio. He attended schools in Hamilton, Ohio and Rushville, Indiana. In 1864 he joined the Union Army and served until the end of the Civil War. After the war he studied pharmacy and became a druggist. In 1871 he moved to Council Grove, Kansas, where he started a political career. He joined the Republican Party and became a member of the city council and the education board of Council Grove. For a while he was also sheriff in Morris County, Kansas. In this function he fought successfully against crimes and violation. Richter was then a three term mayor of Council Grove. He also served three terms as a member and as president of the board of directors of the state prison. For two years he held a seat in the Kansas House of Representatives and for four years he was a member of the State Senate.