Andrew Wood (surgeon)

He was born at 42 South Hanover Street[1] in Edinburgh on 1 September 1810 the son of Mary Oswald Gillespie and her husband, William Wood FRSE (1782-1858), a surgeon.

[3] He joined his father operating from premises at 87 George Street in Edinburgh's New Town close to their home.

In 1855 he succeeded Robert Omond as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, a role also previously held by his father William.

[6] In 1863 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being John Hutton Balfour.

[7] He died at home, 9 Darnaway Street on the Moray Estate in western Edinburgh on 25 January 1881.