William Pitcairn

He was born in Dysart, Fife, the second son of the Revd David Pitcairn.

He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and gave their Goulstonian lectures in 1752.

[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1770 as someone "distinguished by his application to Botany and success in rearing scarce and foreign plants".

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