Deacon of the Incorporation 1744-1746. Imprisoned during the 1745 Rising. Released in 1747 after intercession on his behalf by Lord Duncan Forbes of Culloden, Lord President of the Court of Session.
Further reading
“Medical Heroes of the ‘Forty-Five’” by W.A. Macnaughton. Caledonian Medical Journal; 1897 to 1899; v3; p93
Macintyre, Iain - "'Exempt from Bearing Arms in Battle', Medicine and Surgery in the 1745 Jacobite Rising", Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 102, 2024
