Patrick Newbigging

Patrick Small Keir Newbigging FRSE PRSSA PRCSE (1813-1864) was a Scottish surgeon. He was President of the Royal Scottish Society of the Arts and President of the Royal Medical Society. Together with his father, William Newbigging he formed one of the few father-son pairs of former Presidents of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Life

29 Heriot Row, Edinburgh
The grave of Patrick Newbigging, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh

He studied Medicine at Edinburgh University. He received his doctorate (MD) in 1834. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh the same year and served as their President 1861-63. He was also President of the Royal Medical Society in 1835.

In 1848 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposer was William Pulteney Alison.[1] In 1850 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Society of the Arts and served as their President 1861-62.[2]

In his final years he lived at 29 Heriot Row in the Second New Town in Edinburgh, facing Queen Street Gardens.[3]

He died on 10 January 1864 and is buried with his wife in Dean Cemetery. The grave lies against the wall on the south-west spur from the cemetery.

Family

Newbigging was married to Mary Anne Cockburn (1823-1909). They had twin daughters, Eleanor Letitia Newbigging (later Thompson) (1848-1875) and Alice Horsford Newbigging (1848-1911). They had one son: Alexander Cecil Newbigging (1853-1944).

His older brother was John Steuart Newbigging.

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.
  2. ↑ http://www.rssa.org.uk/history/past-presidents.shtml
  3. ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1862-3
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