Alexander Peddie
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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.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2017-12-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}
Life
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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.{{cite journal |title=Alexander Peddie, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., F.R.S.E., Etc., Edinburgh |journal=The British Medical Journal |date=1907 |volume=1 |issue=2405 |pages=291–293 |jstor=20293097 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20293097 |issn=0007-1447}}
In 1846 Peddie was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as president in 1890.{{Cite book|url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ww4e59xv|title= A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society|last=Watson Wemyss|first=Herbert Lindesay|publisher=T&A Constable, Edinburgh|year=1933|language=en}}
Peddie died at his home at 15 Rutland Street, in the West End of Edinburgh, on 19 January 1907.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1906
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