Colin Lauder

Dr Colin Lauder, from the painting by Sir Henry Raeburn

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

The son of Dr George Lauder (1712–1752) a surgeon and fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, by his spouse Rosina Preston (d.1786), Colin Lauder was the great-great-grandson of Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet, of Fountainhall and the grandson of Surgeon John Lauder (surgeon) (1683-1737) deacon of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

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

Dr Colin Lauder was the surgeon to the Scottish philosopher David Hume (as recorded by The Private Papers of James Boswell 1776 )

A Sasine registered on 12 August 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 8 July 1793, mentions "Colin Lauder late surgeon in Edinburgh, now at Fala House, Midlothian."

He was married four times:

Of his children:

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