Old travel Blog photograph of Doctor Robert Rannie, medical practitioner in Peterculter, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Robert was born in Glenbuchat at the Mill of Glenbuchat and later lived at Easterbucket before graduating in Medicine in 1887. He became a physician in Peterculter Aberdeen from 1888 until his retirement in 1921. His father was William Rannie and his mother Hellen Bremner and both are buried at Glenbuchat Churchyard. Roberts’s younger brother James also graduated in medicine. James had a brilliant College career, carrying off no fewer than four first and two gold medals, besides five first and second prizes. He was also a poet of no mean ability. He died on 20th August, 1894 at Klerksdorp South Africa aged 30 and is also buried in Glenbuchat.
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