Patrick Newbigging

Patrick Small Keir Newbigging FRSE FRSSA FRCSE (1813–1864) was a Scottish surgeon and general practitioner.

Together with his father, Sir William Newbigging he formed one of the few father-son pairs of former Presidents of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

[2] He received his doctorate (MD), in 1834, writing his thesis on the same topic, under the title On the causes of the impulse and sounds of the heart.

Before settling into practice in Edinburgh he made a tour of medical centres in Europe, promoting his ideas on auscultation of the heart.

[2] He then joined his father in general practice in Edinburgh and was elected a medical officer to the New Town Dispensary.

Patrick Newbigging followed in his father's footsteps serving as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1861 to 1863.

In his final years he lived at 29 Heriot Row in the New Town in Edinburgh, facing Queen Street Gardens.