David Ritchie (moderator)

Very Rev Prof David Ritchie FRSE DD (1763–1844) was a late 18th and early 19th century Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for the year 1814/15.[1]

Life

St. Andrew's Church, George Street Edinburgh

He was born in Methven in Perthshire in 1763. He studied divinity at St Andrews University and was licensed to preach by the Church of Scotland in 1789.

Awaiting a patron, he spent some time as the schoolteacher at Gask, a small village west of Perth. Not until 1798 did he obtain a post as an assistant minister, eventually rising to minister, at Penicuik south of Edinburgh. He then moved in quick succession to Kilmarnock (1800) and then to St Andrews Church on George Street in Edinburgh (1801) (now known as St Andrews and St George Church).

In 1808 he left the ministry to become Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh University. He then lived at 104 Princes Street[2] facing Edinburgh Castle. In 1811 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Dr John Barclay, Thomas Charles Hope, and Rev Andrew Brown. Edinburgfh University awarded him an honorary doctorate (DD) in 1813.[3]

He retired in 1836 and died at home, 28 Broughton Place[4] in east Edinburgh on 10 January 1844. He is buried in New Calton Burial Ground.

References

  1. ↑ https://www.geni.com/projects/Moderators-of-the-General-Assembly-of-the-Church-of-Scotland/15939
  2. ↑ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1810
  3. ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  4. ↑ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1843-44
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