Born about 1717.
Educated at Edinburgh University.
Licensed by the Presbytery of Chirnside in 1740.
Presented to the Parish of Stichill in 1742 – where he remained until his death in 1772.
He married Wilhelmina Dawson in 1764 – they had 3 children – a son and 2 daughters.
Diary of George Ridpath 1755 – 1761
The diary was written during George’s time at Stichill.
The introduction says
“Reports of the big things in life are easily found, but it is less easy to get information as to the daily life of the people, their reading, their dinners and drinkings, their quarrels and reconciliations, their loves and hates, their little jaunts, painfully accomplished for the most part on horseback over very inferior roads, and, generally, the home life of the period. All this is chronicled for us in the pages of the Diary, written without the slightest idea of ultimate publication by one who, though he might be described as an obscure country minister, was nevertheless a man of rare culture, a friend of the most celebrated Scots literati of the time, and an earnest student in many branches of science.”
See full text at https://archive.org/details/diaryofgeorgerid00ridprich