Colin Lauder
Colin Lauder was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh FRCSEd, and a burgess of Edinburgh. His portrait was painted by Sir Henry Raeburn.
Life
The son of George Lauder, a surgeon and fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, by his spouse Rosina Preston, Colin Lauder was the great-great-grandson of Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet, of Fountainhall and the grandson of Surgeon John Lauder deacon of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.Lauder trained at Glasgow University alongside Handyside Edgar becoming a lifelong friend of his brother Alexander Edgar through this link.
He served as a surgeon in the 17th Regiment of Foot from 14 October 1770 until 1772. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh on 31 August 1772 and was made a burgess of Edinburgh on 23 September 1772 in right of his father. In 1773 Lauder was a founding member of the Aesculapian Club. and in 1782 was one of the founding members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh.
Dr Colin Lauder was the surgeon to the Scottish philosopher David Hume. His Edinburgh home stood on Carrubbers Close off the Royal Mile.
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:
- on 1 June 1772 at St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, to Margaret Milne, daughter of John Milne, founder and burgess of Edinburgh by spouse Elizabeth née Edgar, by whom he had issue – 10 children
- Janet Law. Very little known about her; there is unsubstantiated rumor of a portrait that existed, and there is a grandchild Janet Law Guild born to Colin's daughter Elizabeth Edgar Lauder.
- Agnes Donaldson on 12 December 1810
- Margaret Ross on 21 May 1822
- Dr William Preston Lauder FRSE, a solicitor, married 25 March 1784 McLeish Rutherford, daughter of Lewis Rutherford in Dunbar, with issue.
- George Lauder, captain in the Madras Army
- John Lauder, Naval Physician, of 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, Royal Navy.