William Terence Martin Riches

William Terence Martin Riches (1939 – June 2024) was a British academic, author, and activist who was a lecturer in American studies at Ulster University and a political author. He grew up around the Forest of Dean. In 1959, at the age of 20, he met his future wife Judith, whom he married in 1963.

Career Riches went overseas to pursue a PhD at the University of Tennessee.

In 1997, he published the book The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance for students, and it was part of the book series Study in Contemporary History. On the American Studies Resource Centre (a digitised version of the recources at the Liverpool John Moores University), the book is described as presenting a "coherent and very readable account of the American Civil Rights Movement". In the Annual Review of Sociology, published by Aldon D. Morris, the book is described as providing an "analysis of the political and intellectual contributions made by the modern civil rights movement."

Retirement In 2000, Riches and Judy retired to Newnham-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, close to where he grew up. saying that he "cannot see a future for this country now", and that he "doesn't understand why the older generation voted against their children".

Riches died in June 2024, aged 84.