Cook, John ♂
Education
M.A. and M.D. 12.9.1750.
Birth/childhood
Born 1712 near Lanark.
Career
F.F.P.S.G. 1756.
Chief surgeon to the Russian Imperial Army, then practised in Hamilton. [Doctor]
Purchased estate of Allanshaw in 1759. [Landowner]
Published on his travels in Russia in 1770.
Voyages and Travels through the Russian Empire... (2 vols.) Vol. 2. (Edinburgh: Printed for the author, 1770)
Death
Died 25.10.1790 aged 78.
Sources
- Duncan, Memorials FPSG
- Scots Magazine 1804 886
- Monumental inscription, Hamilton Old b.g.
- Inf. from W. Wallace 26.9.1970
- A. L. Fullerton, Descendants of John Cook, 1995