Sir Stuart Threipland MD, FRCPE | |
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.png) Sir Stuart Threipland, de jure 3rd Baronet, of Fingask. Portrait by William Delacour | |
| Born | 18 May 1716 Perthshire, Scotland |
| Died | 1805 (aged 88–89) Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Medical career | |
| Profession | Physician-in-chief to Prince Charles Edward Stuart President Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh |
Stuart Threipland MD, FRCPE (18 May 1716 – 1805) was a Scottish physician. He was the son of Sir David Threipland, the second baronet of Fingask and, like his father, was an active Jacobite. After qualifying MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1742 he became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) two years later. In 1745 he joined Prince Charles Edward Stuart in the Jacobite rising. He became physician-in-chief to the prince and stayed with the army throughout the campaign. After the Jacobite defeat at Culloden in April 1746 he went into exile in France but was able to return to Scotland under the Indemnity Act 1747. When his father died in 1746 he succeeded to become de jure the third baronet of Fingask but was technically unable to use the title which had been forfeited by his father because of his support for the Jacobite cause. He practised as a physician in Edinburgh and was elected president of the RCPE in 1766. In 1783 he was able to buy back most of the family estates in Fingask and Kinnaird which had been confiscated from his father in 1715.