William Pirrie (surgeon)

Prof William Pirrie FRSE LLD (1807–21 November 1882) was a 19th-century Scottish surgeon and medical author.

He was born on a farm near Huntly, Aberdeenshire the son of George Pirrie, a farmer.

He was educated at Gartly Parish School then studied medicine at Marischal College in Aberdeen, graduating with an MA in 1825.

[3] He retired in June 1882 and died soon after, at 253 Union Street in Aberdeen, on 21 November 1882.

[5] His daughter, Anna Jane, married one of his students, William Heath Strange, who went on to found the Hampstead General Hospital, demolished in the 1970s to make way for the Royal Free Hospital.