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Dates 1753-1759
Location London
Vocation Physician; poet
Place of Birth Duns
Marriage Miss Burt
Issue Louise Agnes; Eleanor
Place of birth Source Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Educated at Edinburgh. Army surgeon (1745-1748). Established a medical practice in Walbrook (1753). Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London (1758). Had limited success as a physician, and relied instead upon his poetical writing for income. Left England (1759) for a four-year tour of West Indies, and settled as a physician on St Kitts. Known particularly for his principal poem 'The Sugar Cane' (1764), written on St Kitts.