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William Garioch - Physician

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Physician. Boswell mentions meeting a Dr. Garie at Sir William Maxwell's on October 7, 1762. Pottle, in Journal of my Jaunt, 1762, identifies him with William Garioch.

Also known as

  • Dr. Garie
  • Life with James Boswell

    Boswell described him as "a physician, who has been tutor to the knights of this family [the Maxwells of Springkell] for two generations, a man upwards of seventy, nonjurant and High-Church, but is a quiet peaceable creature and never mentions principles. He lives in the house and seems to be very happy".

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    William Garioch is mentioned in:

  • Journal of my Jaunt, Harvest 1762
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