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Sibbald was born in Edinburgh and studied at the city’s university and Leiden, taking his degree of MD in 1661. By 1667, Sibbald and Dr Andrew Balfour, had established a botanical garden on lands acquired from the Palace of Holyrood house. Sibbald, with Balfour, Thomas Burnet, Alexander Stevenson and Archibald Pitcairne, was a founding member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, which obtained its charter in 1681. The following year Sibbald also became physician-in-ordinary to Charles II and Geographer Royal of Scotland. In 1684 Sibbald became the president of the RCPE and in the following year he became the University of Edinburgh’s first Professor of Medicine. Sibbald authored a number of geographical and statistical accounts of Scotland which included his most elaborate work: 'Scotia illustrate…medicina indigena, accurate explicantur' (1684).
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Title
Sir Robert Sibbald (1641–1722)
Date
1990s
Medium
bronze
Accession number
OBJ/SCU/63
Acquisition method
presented to the RCPE by the Al Hammadi Hospital, Riyadh, on 10 January 1997
Work type
Bust
