William Edward Foggie

William Edward Foggie was born in 1870 in Dundee. He qualified MB CM from the University of Edinburgh in 1893. His first appointment was as Resident Medical Officer at Dundee Royal Infirmary and in 1899 he was promoted to Assistant Physician. During the First World War he served with distinction and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order as Lieutenant-Colonel in 1918. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 2 February 1926 and gave fifty years' service to Dundee Royal Infirmary. He was also Physician to the Royal Victoria Hospital and the Sidlaw Sanatorium. He held lectureships, first in dermatology and later in clinical medicine, at the University of St Andrews, and was President of the Dundee Branch of the British Medical Association in 1933-34. He died on 13 January 1949 aged 79.