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)