Nasmyth, John

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Dates 1603-23
Location London
Vocation Surgeon
Place of Birth Scotland (Pooso, Peeblesshire?)
Marriage
Issue James, Anna, Elizabeth; Henry
Place of birth Source Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Apprenticed to Gilbert Primrose, leading Edinburgh surgeon and admitted as master of the Incorporation of Surgeons (1588). Royal connections led to career as a royal surgeon and Nasmyth accompanied King James to London 1603. Appointed as royal herbalist with life tenure. Nasmyth died London but was buried in Edinburgh.