Robert Moore Peile

Robert Moore Peile (c.1760s - 4 February 1858)^[2] was the president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in 1798 and 1816.^[3]

In 1809, Peile graduated M.D. from St. Andrew's University. In 1790, he was appointed as a surgeon to the House of Industry Hospitals and continued in office for more than half a century. He was a consulting surgeon at Steevens' Hospital. In 1795, he was appointed as 'Surgeon to the Hospitals' for the forces serving in Ireland.

In 1803, he was promoted to be a Deputy-Inspector and in 1847 he retired with the rank of Inspector-General. In Ireland, Peile was noted as the inventor of a lithotome, which limited and rendered incisions more facile in lithotomy procedures.