Robert Freer (or Frier) FRSE FRCPE (1745-8 April 1827) was a soldier and academic, who taught medicine at the University of Glasgow.
In the same year he gave an eloquent speech to the Medical Society of Edinburgh while acting as their Senior President.
[1] In early life he served as an Ensign and military surgeon both in Europe and in the American War of Independence, including at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
[2] In 1779 he settled in Glasgow as a physician, in which year King's College, Aberdeen awarded him his doctorate.
In the same year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposers being Daniel Rutherford, James Finlayson and Thomas Charles Hope.