Edward Rigby (obstetrician)

Edward Rigby (1804–1860) was an English obstetrician and medical writer, the first President of the Obstetrical Society of London.

[1] After graduation Rigby spent some time in Dublin, and in 1826 went to Berlin University to study midwifery.

In 1830 he became a house pupil at the General Lying-In Hospital, Lambeth in South London, where he went on to hold the appointments of junior and senior physician.

[1] Rigby became regarded as the leading obstetric physician in London, when Sir Charles Locock retired from practice.

He married secondly, in 1851, Marianne, eldest daughter of S. D. Darbishire of Pendyffrin, North Wales.