John Lauder (surgeon)

His portrait (oil on canvas) c.1700 by the artist William Aikman (painter) is on display at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

In the same year he was appointed by Edinburgh Town Council to a committee to keep the peace at the time of the Jacobite rising of 1715.

furnished by him to the Town Guard and he was one of those in attendance on Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet in 1718.

In 1720 he was censured for his 'disgraceful behavior' for siding with the Town Council in a dispute over the election of deacons.

[1] Between 1714 and 1737 he was elected Deacon of the Incorporation of Surgeons on four occasions for a total of seven years.