Maitland, Charles

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Dates c.1721-1748
Location London
Vocation Surgeon
Place of Birth Aberdeen
Marriage
Issue
Place of birth Source Anita Guerrini, 'Scots in London Medicine in the Early Eighteenth Century' in S. Nenadic (ed.), Scots in London in the Eighteenth Century' (Cranbury, 2010), 165-185

Surgeon attached to the British embassy in Constantinople (1718). Had moved to London by 1721. Carried out first inoculation for smallpox in England (on daughter of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu), and was eventually hired to inoculate several members of the royal family.