Alexander Peddie

Dr. Alexander Peddie

Alexander Peddie FRSE FRCPE (3 June 1810 – 19 January 1907) was a Scottish physician and author. He was president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1877 until 1879, and was co-founder of Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh.[1]

Life

The Peddie monument, Warriston Cemetery

He was the son of James Peddie, born at Bristo Street in Edinburgh. He attended the school of William Lennie and Edinburgh High School. After four years as a bank clerk, he became an apprentice to the Edinburgh surgeon James Syme. He obtained an M.D. degree from University of Edinburgh in 1835.[2]

In 1846 Peddie was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as president in 1890.[3]

Peddie died at his home at 15 Rutland Street, in the West End of Edinburgh, on 19 January 1907.[4]

Family

Peddie married in 1844 Clara Elizabeth Sibbald Anderson, daughter of Thomas Anderson, a surgeon in Selkirk. The couple had four sons and four daughters.[2] Their daughter Clara Sibbald Peddie (died 1895) attended the Nightingale School, and became a lecturer in nursing at King's College Hospital.[5] Of the sons, two were educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey: Alexander (born 1853) who emigrated to the United States;[6] and Henry Anderson (1858–1946), who became a physician and went into practice in Edinburgh.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Alexander Peddie, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., F.R.S.E., Etc., Edinburgh". The British Medical Journal. 1 (2405): 291–293. 1907. ISSN 0007-1447. JSTOR 20293097.
  3. ^ Watson Wemyss, Herbert Lindesay (1933). A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society. T&A Constable, Edinburgh.
  4. ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1906
  5. ^ Edinburgh Medical Journal. Oliver & Boyd. 1895. p. 1052.
  6. ^ Elizabeth College, Guernsey (1898). Elizabeth College Register, 1824-1873: With a Record of Some Earlier Students. A Chapter of Island History. F. Clarke. p. 253.
  7. ^ Elizabeth College, Guernsey (1898). Elizabeth College Register, 1824-1873: With a Record of Some Earlier Students. A Chapter of Island History. F. Clarke. p. 256.
  8. ^ "No. 37737". The London Gazette. 24 September 1946. p. 4834.
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