John Smart Peddie

John Smart Peddie (1816–1848) was a Scottish physician from Inverkeithing who served as assistant surgeon of HMS Terror on Franklin's lost expedition.

Career John obtained his licence of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh as assistant surgeon in 1836.

Peddie entered service for the Royal Navy aboard HMS Sparrow on the 20th December 1836.

Franklin expedition John Smart Peddie served aboard the ill-fated HMS Terror on Franklin's expedition to find the Northwest passage. He had been promoted to the rank of Surgeon a few months after the expedition sailed. Peddie perished with the rest of the crew.

A fiddle-pattern silver dessert spoon owned by Peddie was found in the possession of an Inuit at Repulse Bay in 1854 by the Rae Expedition. The Inuit said that they had found the material at a camp to the north west of the mouth of the Back River where a party of Europeans had died of starvation.

Grave

Peddie is honoured on a gravestone in Inverkeithing Parish Church graveyard along with his father and brothers.

Peddie and his daughter have a small memorial plaque in St Luke's Church in Charlton, south east London. The plaque reads: