David Ritchie (moderator)

David Ritchie FRSE (1763–1844) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for the year 1814/15.

Awaiting a patron, he spent some time as the schoolteacher at Trinity Gask, a small village west of Perth.

He then moved in quick succession to Kilmarnock (1800) and then to Second charge of St Andrew's Church on George Street in Edinburgh (1801).

His proposers were Dr John Barclay, Thomas Charles Hope, and Rev Andrew Brown.

[2] He was appointed Honorary Chaplain (Pontifex Maximus) of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and remanned in the role until 1832.