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Sir
Robert Sibbald (
April 15 1641–August
1722),
Scottish physician and
antiquary, was born in
Edinburgh. He was the son of David Sibbald (brother of Sir James Sibbald) and Margaret Boyd (Jan 1606–July 10, 1672).
Educated at the
Royal High School and the Universities of
Edinburgh,
Leiden, and
Paris, he took his doctor's degree at the
University of Angers in
1662, and soon afterwards settled as a physician in Edinburgh. In
1667 with Sir
Andrew Balfour he started the
botanical garden in Edinburgh, and he took a leading part in establishing the
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, of which he was elected president in
1684.
In
1685 he was appointed the first professor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He was also appointed
Geographer Royal in
1682, and his numerous and miscellaneous writings deal with historical and antiquarian as well as with botanical and medical subjects.
Sibbald's historical and antiquarian works include:
- A History Ancient and Modern of the Sheriffdoms of Fife and Kinross (Edinburgh, 1710, and Cupar, 1803)
- An Account of the Scottish Atlas (folio, Edinburgh, 1683)
- Scotia illustrata (Edinburgh, 1684)
- Description of the Isles of Orkney and Shetland (folio, Edinburgh, 1711 and 1845).
The Remains of Sir Robert Sibbald, containing his autobiography, memoirs of the Royal College of Physicians, a portion of his literary correspondence, and an account of his manuscripts, was published at Edinburgh in 1833.
Originally the
Blue Whale was named after Sibbald, who first described it scientifically. The wildflower
Sibbaldia procumbens (External Link
)
also was named after him.
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