William Dick (veterinary surgeon)

He was born in White Horse Close on the Canongate on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile on 6 May 1793 to Jane (Jean) Anderson (c.1765–1837) and John Dick (1769-1844).

[2][3] He was educated by the Reverend J. Robinson at Paul’s Work, a small complex of buildings where Waverley train station now stands.

[5] He returned to Edinburgh to establish his own veterinary college, based at his father’s courtyard, and with the support of his sister, Mary Dick, and a patron, John Corse Scott of Sinton.

[6] The process was executed in liaison with the Highland Society, who at the end of the course issued a certificate, following an oral examination, to say the student was competent to practice "the veterinary art".

He died on 4 April 1866 and was buried in New Calton Burial Ground overlooking his original birthplace and family home just to the south.

In 1916 it moved to a purpose-built new home at Summerhall in the South Side of Edinburgh, which had been built 1913-1915, with some disruption due to the First World War.