Alexander Biggam
FRCP (14 April 1888 – 22 March 1963) was a Scottish physician and soldier who served as Director of Study of Edinburgh Post-Graduate Board for Medicine.[1]
Life
Biggam was born in Stranraer, the son of J. Biggam of Laigh Glenstockadale, in the parish of Leswalt.[2]
Educated at
Waziristan Field Force (1919–21) on the North-West Frontier of India.[1]
Biggam was director of the medical unit at
King George VI in 1937.[1]
Biggam served in
KBE in 1946.[4]
After the war he returned to Scotland, taking up the post of senior lecturer in
Sir Alexander Gray and Angus Sinclair.[6]
References
- ^ The Glasgow Herald. Glasgow. 25 March 1963. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
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- ^ Medical Officers of the British Army 1660-1960 volume 2 page 111
- ^ Minute Books of the Harveian Society. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
- ISBN 9780902198845. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
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