Braid, William

Education

Student United College 1765-[1769] (Ternar)

M.A. 1.5.1769. Malcolm bursar, 1766.

Student St Mary’s College 1769-1774. Exchequer bursar, 1770. Class prize, 1770.

M.D. 29.3.1782.

Birth/childhood

Baptised 16.5.1751 son of John Braid, merchant burgess, St Andrews and Helen Gourlay.

Career

Surgeon Army Medical Service 1777. Half pay 1783.

Styled surgeon in London when he is served heir to his father in 1796. [Doctor]

Death

Died 18.6.1824.

Sources

  • UYUC110
  • UYUC400:18.1.1766
  • UYSM400/1/265
  • UYUY452/8/96
  • UYUY309
  • W. Johnston, Roll of Commissioned Officers in the Medical Service of the British Army 1727-1898 (Aberdeen, 1917) 879
  • Wm McRitchie, Diary of a tour through Great Britain, London, 1837