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

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]

^ 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.
^ "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.
^ Watson Wemyss, Herbert Lindesay (1933). A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society. T&A Constable, Edinburgh.
^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1906