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Borthwick was the first
Edinburgh surgeon to bring an international perspective to the Incorporation of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Having studied at Padua and Leyden, he encouraged one of his apprentices, John Monro to study in Leyden. Monro returned to Scotland, inspired and determined to set up a
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when it was founded in 1681), to be ‘visitors’ of the ‘phisicall gardin’. This garden for medicinal herbs was in land, which belonged to the
Trinity Hospital. The site of this garden can be found by platform 11 in Edinburgh Waverley Station, where there is a commemorative plaque. The garden was
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who left it in Trust to the Royal
College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. In addition to his property at Pilmuir, Borthwick owned a stone house in Edinburgh which had a dining room, "four bedchambers a dark closet and a kitchen", which had cost 6600 merks Scots (£330 sterling).
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After finishing his apprenticeship he married
Marionn Brothwick, eldest daughter of his surgical master, on 12 June 1666 at Edinburgh. Their daughter Margaret married John Campbell of Knockreoch who was to become
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on three occasions - in 1715, 1719 and 1723. William
Borthwick married on two subsequent occasions, Marjory Steuart, daughter of Harie Steuart, brother of Sir Thomas Steuart of Grantully and lastly Eupheme Young.
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William
Borthwick was surgical apprentice to James Borthwick, who would later become his father-in-law. On 15 November 1665, he was elected a Freeman or Fellow of the
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On 16 June 1679, Borthwick was commissioned as "Chirurgeon Major of His
Majesty's Forces in Scotland" and he was listed as surgeon to the 21st Regiment of Foot (
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College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. (1874). List of Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons o Edinburgh from ... 1581 to ... 1873. Edinburgh.
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Borthwick owned the
Pilmuir estate in East Lothian. His country home, Pilmuir House, was built in 1627. Some 300 years later it was bought by
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was ‘booked as servant in order to be prenticed’ to
William Borthwick, the first connection the Monro family had with surgery.
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medical school in Edinburgh based on the Leiden model.
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