Background
He was born in Stranraer, the son of J. Biggam of Laigh Glenstockadale, in the parish of Leswalt.
He was born in Stranraer, the son of J. Biggam of Laigh Glenstockadale, in the parish of Leswalt.
University of Edinburgh. George Watson"s College.
Educated at George Watson"s College, Edinburgh, and Edinburgh University (Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery, 1911. Doctor of Medicine 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 1916-1921.
He was awarded the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services with the Waziristan Field Force (1919-1921) on the North-West Frontier of India. He served as examiner in medicine for the Kitchener School of Medicine in Khartoum and the American University of Beirut.
He was appointed an honorary physician to King George VI in 1937. Biggam served in India and Burma during World World War II and was Consulting Physician to the Army during 1941-1947.
He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1940, appointed a Central Bank in 1944 and appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1946.
After the war he returned to Scotland, taking up the post of Senior Lecturer in Tropical Medicine at Edinburgh University in 1947. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1950, upon the proposal of Douglas Guthrie, John Gaddum, Sir Alexander Gray and Angus Sinclair.