John Steadman or Stedman MD FRCPE FSA Scot FRSE (1710–16 April 1791) was an 18th-century Scottish physician and antiquary.
[1] He was born in 1710 at Baldridge near Dunfermline in Fife, the son of Jean Kinnaird and Rev John Stedman (1678-1713).
[2] In 1710 the family moved to Edinburgh as his father became the minister of the Tron Kirk on the Royal Mile.
In 1740 he was appointed as physician to the Scots Greys, and was with the regiment at Battle of Dettingen.
[4] He lived his final years at St John Street off the Canongate in Edinburgh.