Alexander Biggam

Major-General Sir Alexander Gordon Biggam KBE CB FRSE FRCPE 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.

Life Biggam was born in Stranraer, the son of J. Biggam of Laigh Glenstockadale, in the parish of Leswalt.

Educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, and the University of Edinburgh (MB ChB, 1911; MD 1924 ) Biggam started his career as a House Physician and Surgeon at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. In 1912 he was commissioned in the Royal Army Medical Corps and saw active service in France during World War I, where he was wounded in 1915. He then saw service in India from 1916 to 1921. He was awarded the OBE for services with the Waziristan Field Force (1919–21) on the North-West Frontier of India.

After the war he returned to Scotland, taking up the post of senior lecturer in tropical medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1947. He was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh in 1948. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1950, his proposers were Douglas Guthrie, John Gaddum, Sir Alexander Gray and Angus Sinclair.