John LAUDER

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Lauder of Fountainhall, http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/htol/lauder8.htm

John Lauder, baptised 27th July 1683 at Edinburgh, was firstly a surgeon-apothocary. He was enrolled as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) and became Surgeon-General of H.M.Forces. On 13th April 1709 he was made a Burgess of Edinburgh by right of his father, to whom he was served heir on 12th January 1700. He died before 17th May 1738, leaving by his wife, Isobella, daughter of George Preston, surgeon in Edinburgh, issue:

(a) Colin

John Lauder (surgeon)
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Dr John Lauder (1683-1737) of Edinburgh was 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.

He married:

(1) to 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 his 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 30th 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

John married Isobella PRESTON, daughter of Dr. George PRESTON and Unknown. (Isobella PRESTON was born in 1683.)