Dr. George LAUDER

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: John Lauder (surgeon)

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 30th April and died 8-may-1752 at Edinburgh. He Married Rosina Preston with Issue.