Colin Lauder

Colin Lauder, (1750 – October 25, 1831, Worlds End Close, Edinburgh) was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and a Burgess of Edinburgh. His portrait was painted by Sir Henry Raeburn.

The son of George Lauder (1712 - 1752) and also a Burgess of Edinburgh, by his spouse Rosina Preston (d.1786), Colin Lauder was also a great-great-grandson of Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet, of Fountainhall.

He served as a surgeon in the 17th Regiment of Foot from October 14, 1770 until 1772. He was made a Burgess of Edinburgh on September 23, 1772 in right of his father.

A Sasine registered on August 12, 1785, records that George, Rosina, John and Lucinda Johnstone Lauder, children of Colin Lauder, surgeon, Edinburgh, were seised in part of a tenement of land in George Street, Edinburgh, on Disposition by Andrew Neil, mason, Edinburgh. Another Sasine, registered July 8, 1793, mentions "Colin Lauder late surgeon in Edinburgh, now at Fala House, Midlothian."

He was married four times: (1) to Janet Law (no issue), (2) Agnes Donaldson (no issue) (3) on June 1, 1772 at St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, to Margaret (d. January 1822) daughter of John Milne, founder & Burgess of Edinburgh by spouse Elizabeth née Edgar, by whom he had his only issue - 10 children, (4)on May 21, 1822, to Margaret Ross (d. 1857).

Of his children:

• Dr William Preston Lauder (d. April 1, 1852, Chelsea, London, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
• Francis Lauder, a solicitor, married 1784 McLeish, daughter of Lewis Rutherford in Dunbar, with issue.
• John Lauder, Naval Physician (d. before October 1814), later at Penicuik and who also owned a farm at Easter Teary, Dyke, Elginshire.
• Rosina Preston Lauder married, in 1803, Robert Sibbald, farmer of Humbie Mains, with issue.
• Elizabeth Edgar Lauder, married, in 1805, George Guild, farmer of Demple Mains, with issue, one of whom, Janet, married Nathaniel Spens of Craigsanquhar, Writer to the Signet. Another, Elizabeth, married Rear-Admiral John Macpherson Ferguson (1783 - 1855), Royal Navy.

References

• Indexes to the Inventories of the Personal Estate of Defuncts, Edinburgh, 1827 - 1845, ref: C587.
• The Post Office Annual Directory for 1826-27, Edinburgh, 1826, p102, has Dr Colin Lauder at 8 Windmill Street, Edinburgh.
• Genealogical Collections concerning the Scottish House of Edgar, by The Grampian Club London, 1873, p.9.