William Newbigging

[1] He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and was apprenticed to Dr Forrest Dewar at Hunters Square, just off the Royal Mile, around 1790.

[2] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1799 and served as their President in 1814.

[3][4] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1824, his proposer was Robert Jameson.

[6] He lived with his wife and family at 29 Heriot Row, in a large Georgian townhouse in the Edinburgh's New Town.

[7] He died aged 79 on 2 October 1852 at 29 Heriot Row, Edinburgh, and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in central Edinburgh[8] in the western extension close to the grave of his colleague Dr John Gordon.