Gershom Carmichael was a Scottish subject born in London, the son of Alexander Charmichael, a Church of Scotland minister who had been banished by the Scottish privy council for his religious opinions.
Carmichael visited Bath to take the waters and he was eventually able to dispense with the braces.
[1] Carmichael graduated at Edinburgh University in 1691, and became a regent at St Andrews.
[4] Sir William Hamilton regarded him as "the real founder of the Scottish school of philosophy".
[4] He wrote Breviuscula Introductio ad Logicam, a treatise on logic and the psychology of the intellectual powers, combining Arnauld and Nicole with Locke;[5] Synopsis Theologiae Naturalis; and an edition of Pufendorf, De Officio Hominis et Civis, with notes and supplements of high value.