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Master of the Royal Scottish Corporation (1702-1703), to which he donated £20.
 
Master of the Royal Scottish Corporation (1702-1703), to which he donated £20.
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ODNB: Graduated MA from St Andrews University (1671) but studied medicine on continent (possibly Leiden & Paris) graduating from Rheims in 1684. Returned to Edinburgh but moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1687.
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Migrated to London in 1689 and named extra-physician to William & Mary (1690) and elevated to physician of the person later that year. Became fellow of Royal College of Physicians (1690) Named superintendent of surgeons fleet (1691)
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Wellwood died at his home in York Buildings, the Strand and was buried in St Martin-in-the-Fields.
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Also wrote history of reign of Charles I at request of Queen Mary published as 'Memoirs of the most Material Transactions' (1700)

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Dates 1687-1727
Location London
Vocation Physician
Place of Birth Dunfermline
Marriage Barbara Armor; 2nd wife Elizabeth Tregonwell Seymour
Issue 3 daughters
Place of birth Source Anon., The Original Design, Progress and Present State of the Scots Corporation at London (London, 1730); Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Master of the Royal Scottish Corporation (1702-1703), to which he donated £20.

ODNB: Graduated MA from St Andrews University (1671) but studied medicine on continent (possibly Leiden & Paris) graduating from Rheims in 1684. Returned to Edinburgh but moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1687. Migrated to London in 1689 and named extra-physician to William & Mary (1690) and elevated to physician of the person later that year. Became fellow of Royal College of Physicians (1690) Named superintendent of surgeons fleet (1691) Wellwood died at his home in York Buildings, the Strand and was buried in St Martin-in-the-Fields. Also wrote history of reign of Charles I at request of Queen Mary published as 'Memoirs of the most Material Transactions' (1700)