Dr David Clerk, MD

His (Dr. David Clerk) mother was the daughter of Thomas Rattray of Craighall to whose surgeon son, John, David Clerk had been apprenticed.

Academic patronage in the Scottish enlightenment: Glasgow, Edinburgh and St ...  By Roger L. Emerson (p132)

http://books.google.com/books?id=lBgq1_LgvJEC&pg=PR9&dq=%2B%22rober...

DAVID CLERK, M.D. of Edinburgh, physician to the royal infirmary, married Helen, daughter of James Duff, esq. of Craigston, in the county of Aberdeen, and dying in 1768, left two sons, James and Robert, by whom the elder...

Source: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland: enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but uninvested with heritable honours

By John Burke, Published by Colburn, 1836, Item notes: v. 3

Original from Oxford University, p.188

http://books.google.co.in/books?id=qf4GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA188&lpg=PA188&...

son Robert, b. in Feb. 1765, who d. at Cadiz. The elder, James Clerk...

Source: Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry, Volume 2, By John Burke, p. 1100

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[This person was added as referenced in a detailed explanation of the Clerk family on electricscotland.com at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/nation/clerk.htm ]

Margaret Rattray 1702-1744. Married John Clerk of Listonshiels and Spittal.

• 1st son * 2nd son * David Clerk M.D. Physician to Royal Infirmary. Married to Helen Duff
• Dawn Stapylton-Adkins. James Rattray & His Descendants in South Africa 1822-1992, self-published, Cape Town, 1992