Henry Oliphant Ritchie - probate London 11 February 1954
William Hamilton Ritchie - probate Llandudno 2 May 1944
William Ritchie - probate 20 May 1909
Not exactly. Note that the word 'Probate' does not actually appear in any of these extracts from the Calendar of Probate!
As these Ritchies were domiciled in Scotland, their estates were dealt with through the Scottish Courts.
There is no such thing as 'Probate' in Scots Law.The corresponding legal procedure is termed Confirmation, which you will see is mentioned in all three listings.
If someone dies domiciled in Scotland owning property in England, the executry does not have to go through the full procedure of obtaining probate in the English or Welsh courts as well as Confirmation in Scotland. Instead, the Scottish Confirmation is 'Sealed' in England or Wales.
There is a reciprocal arrangement whereby Probate in an English or Welsh court is 'Sealed' in a Scottish court if someone domiciled in England dies in Scotland, and there were also similar arrangements with Ireland.
What this means is that the dates quoted in the (England and Wales) Calendar of Probate are those when the Confirmation was Sealed in England or Wales, not when it was actually granted by the Scottish courts that dealt with it, so if you want to find the original Confirmation it will be between the date of death and the date of sealing.
The other corollary of this is that if someone dies domiciled in Scotland but
not owning property in England, there is no need for their Confirmation to be Sealed, and it will not be listed in the (England and Wales) Calendar of Probate. So for most deaths in Scotland you will not find anything in the (England and Wales) Calendar of Probate, even though some web sites imply that it is a list covering the whole of the United Kingdom.