Robert Peel Ritchie

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

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

He is buried in Dean Cemetery with his wife Mary Anderson of Bleaton Hallet, and son, Dr Lionel Charles Peel Ritchie.

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

His son Dr Lionel Charles Peel Ritchie was drowned in Granton Harbour in 1914.

Ritchie's house at 1 Melville Crescent, Edinburgh (left)
The grave of Robert Peel Ritchie MD, Dean Cemetery