Tour Scotland Video John Ritchie Stained Glass Window Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the John Ritchie Stained Glass Window in St John's Kirk on ancestry, history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. This window, the work of Herbert Hendrie was the gift of Mrs Ritchie, in memory of her husband, John Ritchie, Sheriff Clerk in Perth, who died in 1923. Herbert Hendrie, born 1887, died 1946, was a British stained glass artist. He is known for his strong simple designs with scintillating jewel like effects. Among his best known works are the fifteen windows for Kippen church and the tall stained glass windows for Liverpool Cathedral in England.

The surname as MacRitchie is mainly found in the Highlands, and more usually without " Mac " in Southern Scotland and the English border counties. Early examples include Duncan Richie, a kings messenger in Perth in 1505, John Riche who witnessed an instrument of sasine in Brechin in the same year, and Robert McRichie also known as Makryche, of Glenshee in 1571, whilst Duncan Riche was the king's sheriff of Inverness in the Highlands in 1512. William Ritchie founded the Scotsman newspaper in 1817, and Alexander Ritchie was an Edinburgh artist of repute in the early half of the last century.

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