Robert Peel Ritchie

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

Ritchie's house at 1 Melville Crescent, Edinburgh (left)

Life
The grave of Robert Peel Ritchie, Dean Cemetery

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

In the 1860s he was living at 16 Hill Street in the First New Town in Edinburgh.[1]

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.[2]

He lived at 1 Melville Crescent in Edinburgh's fashionable West End.[3] His next-door neighbour was the eminent surgeon Joseph Bell.

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

Family

His son Henry Peel Ritchie won the Victoria Cross in the First World War.

Publications

References
  1. Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1868
  2. 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.
  3. Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1901-2
  4. "Thomas Hill Pattison, M.D". Edinburgh : printed by Oliver and Boyd. 21 April 1885 – via Internet Archive.
  5. "Ritchie, Robert Peel, 1835-1902 | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
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