John Steuart Newbigging

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WS (1809 – 1849) was a short-lived Scottish lawyer and legal author. He was a Member of the Edinburgh Society of Arts.

Life

He was born at 7 South St David Street in

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on 20 January 1809 the son of

William Newbigging Sir William Newbigging FRSE FRCSEd FRGS (25 April 1773''Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950'' – 23 October 1852) was a Scottish surgeon who served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1814 to 1816. He ...

and his wife Lilias Steuart or Stewart. By 1820 his family had moved to 18 St Andrew Square due to William's growing success as a surgeon. Around 1823 John was apprenticed as a lawyer to Walter Dickson WS at 3 Royal Circus. He qualified as a

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in 1832. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1834 his proposer being

Robert Jameson Robert Jameson Robert Jameson FRS FRSE (11 July 1774 – 19 April 1854) was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist. As Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh for fifty years, developing his predecessor John ...

. He became a member of the Highland Society in 1836. From 1841 onwards he was Sheriff Clerk of

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. He died at home, 10 Hill StreetEdinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1848 on 25 October 1849 aged only 40. He is buried in the family plot in the western extension of

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Family

He was brother to

Patrick Newbigging Patrick Small Keir Newbigging FRSE FRSSA FRCSE (1813–1864) was a Scottish surgeon and general practitioner. He was President of the Royal Medical Society and of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. Together with his father, Sir William Newbiggin ...

. In 1840 he was married to Elizabeth Flemyng (d.1879).

References

1809 births 1849 deaths Scottish lawyers Lawyers from Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard Scottish legal writers {{Scotland-law-bio-stub