John Lauder (surgeon)

Dr John Lauder (1683–1737) of Edinburgh was a Scottish surgeon, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCSEd). His portrait was painted by William Aikman (painter).^[2]

John was a grandson of Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet, of Fountainhall.

His Portrait,an oil on canvas c.1700 by the artist:William Aikman (painter) is on display at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

John Lauder was apprenticed to Dr Robert Campbell. In 1714 he and Dr James Nesbit applied for the post of surgeon to George Heriot's Hospital in place of Dr Archibald Fisher who had just died. Lauder was successful and was Surgeon to the Hospital from 1714 to 1737. He was elected Deacon in 1714 and was appointed by the town council to a Committee to keep the peace at the time of the Jacobite rising of 1715. In the next year he was paid £346.14s Scots for ‘drugs etc’ furnished by him to the Town Guard and he was one of those in attendance on Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet in 1718. In 1720 he was censured for his ‘disgraceful behavior’ for siding with the town council in a dispute over the election of deacons. Between 1714 and 1737 he was elected Deacon of the RCSE Incorporation on four occasions for a total of seven years and he died in March 1737 while in office as Deacon.

Family

Lauder married Isabella Preston (b.1683) daughter of Edinburgh surgeon Dr George Preston, and grand daughter of Sir Robert Preston (Lord Preston).Preston baronets Robert obtained a charter of the lands of Preston, Mid Lothian, 20 August 1633, was knighted, and admitted a lord of session, 4 March 1672, when he took the title of Lord Preston, and died in October 1674. ^[5] Isabella and her father Dr George were among the last descendants of the Preston's of Valleyfield & Gorton. Of their children:

Dr George Lauder his son was also a fellow of the RCSEd ^[1]. He taught an apprentice named James Grainger ^[4] for 3 years. He was elected Deacon in 1744 and was in office during the 1745 rising, as his father had been at the time of the earlier insurrection. He was therefore deeply involved in civic affairs at that time, as his father had been in the 1715 rising. He treated the wounded after the Battle of Prestonpans with fellow Edinburgh surgeons Dr Alexander ('Lang Sandy') Wood and Dr John Rattray amongst others. He then went with the army of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in their incursion into England, which resulted in his subsequent imprisonment in Inverness gaol and in London. At the trial of the Edinburgh Lord Provost for 1744, Archibald Stewart for high treason in 1747, George Lauder was one of the witnesses for the defence. He Was thrown from his horse 30 April and died 8-may-1752 at Edinburgh. He Married Rosina Preston with Issue.
Colin Lauder (29-Sep-1710-19-Nov-1783) Berwick-upon-Tweed m. Mary Forbes(d.1841), had one daughter Hester.
Mary Lauder (6-Feb-1715-) little else known

References

^ ^a Biographical Index of former RSE Fellows 1783-2002 Part 2. (K-Z), www.rse.org.uk
^ ^a Object number ED.CS.2010.130 Museum of Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh - rcsed.ac.uk
^ ^a Royal College Surgeons Edinburgh Diploma/Fellowship number www.rcsed.ac.uk
^ ^a Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh - Collection of James Grainger (historic notebook and collection)
^ ^a The Scottish Nation Or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours and Biographical History of The People of Scotland By William Anderson published in 1863..

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