12. | Archibald Douglas was born on 2 Jun 1703 in Cannongate, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (son of Brigadier James Douglas and Jean Maxwell); died on 19 Oct 1786 in Morton, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Notes:
A surgeon in Moffat
It should be stated that Archibald ancestory seems to be at doubt as he, in 1762, paid ?20 in legal expences in an attempt to prove his rights to certain lands in Morton and Lochrinnie.
He claimed to be descended from William Douglas of Whittinghame, son of Sir James Douglas, 2nd Lord of Dalkeith.
This claim was later taken up by Major Andrew Douglas, Lanarkshire Militia, of Hawtree House.
The is in The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh a letter from Kenneth Douglas to Dr Struthers identifying a pocket case of instruments as having belonged to his great-great-great grandfather, Archibald Douglas (1703-1786), who practiced in Moffat and Lockerbie and suggesting the stethoscope dates at least from the 1840s when his father, Dr G Halliday Douglas, later President of the RCPE, was a physician to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Struthers was Conservator of the Museum 1939-1947
Archibald married Jean Dickson on 13 Aug 1723 in Hartree, Peebles, Scotland. Jean (daughter of David Dickson and Helen Wedderburn) was born in 1705 in Hartree, Peebles, Scotland; died on 6 Jun 1756 in Morton Church, Dumfriesshire, Scotland; was buried on 9 Jun 1756 in Morton Church, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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