| Description | Peddie originally started working in bank but was advised by Dr John Abercromby to study medicine. He was apprenticed to James Syme who made him superintendent while still a student of a private hospital he had established in Minto House. In 1835 Peddie graduated MD and became a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. The following year he negotiated to take over Minto House from Syme and ran it successfully as a private hospital for 15 years. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1845 and served as its President 1878-1879. He is most noted for urging the formation of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in 1867 and the Edinburgh Dental Hospital in 1878. He was a keen singer and acted as secretary to the Amateur Vocal Club for twenty years.
[Source: Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 2008 Volume 38/2]
Contents: Collected Medical Papers, 1845-1894; drawing by Noel Paton, 1897 |