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Dates 1662 and 1680s
Location London
Vocation Physician; geographer
Place of Birth Edinburgh
Marriage Anna Lowes; Anna Orrack
Issue Katherine; Elizabeth; Elizabeth; Euphame; Jean
Place of birth Source W. Munck (ed.), The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 2 vols (London, 1878), i, 439-441

Widely famous as a philosopher and geographer in Edinburgh, as well as co-founder of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1681). Resided briefly in London (1662), and more lengthily in the mid- to late-1680s, when a brief conversion to Roman Catholicism forced him to leave Scotland. Physician to James VII. Admitted Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London (1686).