Hair, Patrick

Education

M.A. and M.D. 15.7.1777 on testimonials signed by James Lind, Portsmouth and Nathaniel Spens, physician, Edinburgh.

Birth/childhood

Born c. 1738.

Career

Apprenticed 1754 to James Walker, surgeon, Dalkeith.

Studied Edinburgh University.

Late surgeon of HMS Tweed in 1765. Of Lisbon in 1777. Had a son Joseph born 1781 who became a major in the Bengal Army. [Doctor]