David Ritchie
1799–1883
Clergyman. A member of the Plinian Society at the University of Edinburgh (1829). Succeeded his father as minister of Tarbolton, Ayrshire, in 1829.
Sources
Correspondence vol. 1, letter from John Coldstream, 28 February 1829
Gruber and Barrett 1974, p. 39
Scotland old parish registers births 619/20 17 Tarbolton (Scotlandspeople.gov.uk, accessed 29 September 2017)
Scotland statutory deaths 1883 619/14 Tarbolton (Scotlandspeople.gov.uk, accessed 29 September 2017)
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Gruber, Howard Ernest and Barrett, Paul H. 1974. Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity … Together with Darwin’s early and unpublished notebooks. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co. London: Wildwood House.
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