British doctor (c. 1750–1831)
Colin Lauder (c. 1750 – 25 October 1831), Worlds End Close, Edinburgh) was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh FRCSEd, and a burgess of Edinburgh. His portrait was painted by Sir Henry Raeburn.
Life.
The son of George Lauder (c.1712–1752), a surgeon and fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, by his spouse Rosina Preston (died 1786), Colin Lauder was the great-great-grandson of Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet, of Fountainhall and the grandson of Surgeon John Lauder (surgeon) (1683–1737) deacon of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Lauder trained at Glasgow University alongside Handyside Edgar becoming a lifelong friend of his brother Alexander Edgar through this link.
He served as a surgeon in the 17th Regiment of Foot from 14 October 1770 until 1772. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh on 31 August 1772 and was made a burgess of Edinburgh on 23 September 1772 in right of his father. In 1773 Lauder was a founding member of the Aesculapian Club. and in 1782 was one of the founding members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh.
Dr Colin Lauder was the surgeon to the Scottish philosopher David Hume (as recorded by The Private Papers of James Boswell 1776). His Edinburgh home stood on Carrubbers Close off the Royal Mile.
A Sasine registered on 12 August 1785 records that George, Rosina, John and Lucinda Johnstone Lauder, children of Colin Lauder, surgeon, Edinburgh, were seised in part of a tenement of land in George Street, Edinburgh, on Disposition by Andrew Neil, mason, Edinburgh. Another Sasine, registered 8 July 1793, mentions "Colin Lauder late surgeon in Edinburgh, now at Fala House, Midlothian."
He was married four times:
Of his children:
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