The Cullen Project | People [PERS ID:886]

People [PERS ID:886]

Field	Data
ID	886
Title	Earl
First Name	Dunbar
Middle Name/Initial(s)
Last Name	Douglas
Maiden Name	Hamilton
AKA	Lord Selkirk, 4th Earl of Selkirk
Gender	Male
Occupation	Representative Peer for Scotland (after 1789), Lord Lieutenant of Kirkcudbright, etc.
Medical Professional?	Non Medical Professional

Birth/Death

Birth/Death
Birth (year)	1722
Date of death (year)	1799

Notes


Studied at Glasgow University under Francis Hutcheson and was rector 1766-8. Ancestral home at St Mary's Isle, Kirkudbright, but the Selkirk's townhouse was adjacent to Mint Close making them Cullen's near-neighbours. Had Whig and even radical political leanings.

Cases that this person appears in:

Count	Case ID	Case Name
1	Case 364	Case of Lord Daer (Basil Douglas), whose symptoms leave his family concerned that he may have consumption.
2	Case 365	Case of Lady Mary Douglas diagnosed with a 'weakness of her bowels'.
3	Case 366	Case of John Douglas, younger son of the Earl of Selkirk, who is 'liable to opthlalmia'.
4	Case 367	Case of Alexander Douglas, younger son of the Earl of Selkirk, with measles. Includes an earlier, isolated letter advising Selkirk on how to treat measles.
5	Case 1148	Case of Miss Mitchell whose health was undermined in the West Indies from where she returned two years previously; she has rheumatic pains and a long-standing throat condition which is described variously as a tumour or quinsy.
6	Case 1205	Case of the Earl of Selkirk who has a cough.
7	Case 1528	Case of the children of Lord and Lady Selkirk who are at risk of influenza.