Thomas Dick Lauder

Sir Thomas Dick Lauder of Fountainhall, 7th Baronet, FRSE FSA (Scot) LLD (13 August 1784 – 29 May 1848) was a Scottish author.

[7] On 8 February 1808 he married, on the banks of the Findhorn at Edinkillie, Morayshire, Charlotte Anne (1785–1864), the only child and heiress of George Cumin of Relugas.

[9] His first contribution to Blackwood's Magazine in 1817, entitled Simon Roy, Gardener at Dunphail, was ascribed by some at first to Sir Walter Scott.

[12] About this time he was befriended by (and in 1829 took pains to promote[13]) the Sobieski Stuart brothers, eventual publishers, in 1842, of the disputed Vestiarium Scoticum.

Lauder agreed to transcribe the famous Cromarty MS which remained in the possession of his family until 1936, when it was presented to Queen Mary.

A full transcript of the Cromarty MS can be found in Stewart & Thompson's book, Scotland's Forged Tartans, which deals mainly with the Vestiarium and their opinions on it.

Stodart, Lyon Clerk Depute [1863-86]) 'he claimed to be descended from the family of Lauder of Bass, but utterly failed to prove such descent.

An unfinished series of papers, written for Tait's Magazine shortly before his death, was published under the title Scottish Rivers, with a preface by John Brown, MD., in 1874.