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was fixed. While in practice in London, and physician to Queen Anne, 
Arbuthnot was the familiar associate of Pope, Swift, the poet Gay, 
Matthew Prior, and other literary celebrities of his time. 
BANNERMAN, DonaLp.—In the time of David II, King of Scotland, 
1324-1371, Donald Bannerman, an Aberdonian, was physician to the 
King. Little is known about Dr. Bannerman except that he was of the 
well-known local family, still represented by the Bannermans of Elsick, 
and that he received grants of property from the King in the northern 
suburb of Aberdeen. 
BarcLay, WILLIAM.—This scholarly physician was born about 1 570, 
and although he travelled—and doubtless practised—extensively through- 
out Europe for about thirty years he never lost affection for Aberdeen. In 
a poetic tribute to the Well of Spa, Aberdeen, constructed by another 
eminent Aberdonian, George Jamesone, the first British portrait painter 
of repute, Barclay declares its waters to be equal to the Spa of Liége. 
Buack, Patrick.—Born at Aberdeen in 1813, Dr. Patrick Black, noted 
physician of St. Bartholomew’s, was a son of Col. Patrick Black of the 
Bengal Cavalry. He graduated M.D. at Oxford in 1836, and was elected 
Assistant Physician to St. Bartholomew’s in 1842, Warden of its College 
in 1851, Physician to the Hospital, and, later, Lecturer on Medicine to 
the school. 
C1arK, Sir ANDREW, Bart——He was born, the son of a country doctor, 
at St. Fergus, Aberdeenshire, 1826. His mother died at his birth, and 
his father when the boy was seven years old. Educated at the Academy, 
Dundee, he became apprentice to a Dundee practitioner, but afterwards 
studied as an extra-academical student at Edinburgh, and took the 
diploma of member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England. By his 
good fortune in becoming acquainted with Mrs. Gladstone, in connection 
with the London Hospital, where he was physician, Clark became the 
medical attendant and personal friend of Mr. Gladstone, and many other 
patients of celebrity. In 1883 he was created a baronet, and F.R.S. in 
1885. He was elected President of the Royal College of Physicians in 
1888, and held that office till his death, 1893. 
Crark, Sir James, Bart—Born at Cullen, 1788, Banffshire, and a 
graduate, M.A., of Aberdeen University, Clark became in London 
probably the most fashionable physician of his time. The King of the 
Belgians—whom Clark had met on the Continent—was a patient of his, 
also the Duchess of Kent, mother of Princess Victoria, and when Victoria 
became Queen, Clark became the greatly trusted royal physician. He 
was made a baronet in 1838. His son, the late Sir John F. Clark, Bart., 
of Tillypronie, on Deeside, was also a personal friend of Queen Victoria. 
It was through the advice of Sir James Clark that the Queen and the 
Prince Consort purchased the property of Balmoral, on Deeside, as a 
summer residence for the royal family. 
Cumyne, JaMes.—This was the first known medical officer of Aberdeen. 
He was brought to the burgh about 1503, as the magistrates, on October 20 
in that year, agreed to pay him a retaining fee of ten marks yearly, and, 
