Douglas, Colin ♂

Education

M.A. and M.D. 9.7.1763 on testimonials signed by Alexander Stevenson M.D., John Gordon M.D., Glasgow also Robert Simson.

Birth/childhood

Born 1728 son of James Douglas of Mains and either 1st wife, Isobel Corbet or 2nd wife, Rebecca Wallace.

Career

Apprentice to a Dr Gordon.

L.F.P.S.G. 1763.

Practised in Jamaica for some years then for a time Surgeon to Welsh Fusiliers. [Doctor]

Practised Glasgow. President F.P.S.G. [Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, now Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (R.C.P.S.G.)] 1766 - 1769.

Death

Died 9.6.1769 at Bothwell Castle.

Sources

• Gentleman's Magazine 1769 p334
• P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (Newcastle, 1988)
• A. Duncan, Memorials of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow 1599-1850 (Glasgow, 1896)