Robert Peel Ritchie

Robert Peel Ritchie FRSE PRCPE (1835-1902) was a Scottish physician and medical historian.

Life

The grave of Robert Peel Ritchie, Dean Cemetery

He was born on 18 January 1835. He studied Medicine at Edinburgh University.

In 1883 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Thomas Graham Balfour, Alexander Crum Brown, John Hutton Balfour and Isaac Anderson Henry. From 1887 to 1889 he was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He was also a member of the Scottish Microscopical Society.[1]

He lived at 1 Melville Crescent in Edinburgh's fashionable West End.[2]

He died in Edinburgh on 10 February 1902. He is buried in Dean Cemetery with his wife Mary Anderson of Bleaton Hallet. The grave is marked by an obelisk and stands in the south-east section.

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