Fraser/[Dewar of Lassoddie], Henry

Education

M.D. 3.12.1804 on testimonials signed by William Woodville, Physician to the Smallpox and Inoculation hospital and William Babington, Physician to Guy’s hospital, London. Also James Sims, London.

Birth/childhood

Perhaps the Henry Fraser, M.D., born 19.10.1771 son of Rev. John Fraser M.A., Secession minister at Auchtermuchty and Magdalen Erskine. [Minister]

Career

Afterwards Dewar of Lassoddie when he in 1797 inherited the estate through his mother and changed his name. [Landowner]

Possibly apprenticed 1798 to Charles Heynes, surgeon, Chipping Norton, Oxford and may be the Dr. Henry of Bath, who married 9.4.1817 Miss Bishopp of Greys Wood, Surrey. [Surgeon, doctor]

Burgher minister at Saltcoats 1796-1797 (renounced ministry and took up medicine). [Minister]

Said to have been a short time assistant surgeon in the army. [Doctor].

Settled in Edinburgh as a lecturer on medical and scientific subjects. [University lecturer]

Death

Died 19.1.1823 aged 51.

Sources

  • P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (Newcastle, 1988)
  • Gentleman's Magazine 1917
  • Decenniel indexes to the services of heirs in Scotland 1700-1859
  • R. Small, History of the congregations of the United Presbyterian Church 1733-1900. 2v. (Edinburgh, 1904)