Robert Sibbald
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Sir Robert Sibbald was a Scottish physician and antiquary.
Portrait by John Alexander, 1700
Sibbald mausoleum in Greyfriars, Edinburgh
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh is a medical royal college in Scotland. It is one of three organisations that set the specialty training standards for physicians in the United Kingdom. It
Robert Sibbald
…Castle" near Linlithgow. 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. Both Sibbald and Balfour were proponents of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia. In 1682, Sibbald began assembling…
The façade of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh, Scotland.
The Great Hall in the RCPE building
The New Library in the RCPE building
Fingask Follies at The New Library