| Administrative History | Jonathan Troup, son of Matthew Troup of Aberdeen, was born around 1764 and graduated MA from Marischal College, Aberdeen in 1786. He studied medicine at Aberdeen and Edinburgh before emigrating to the West Indies in 1788, where he practised medicine until his return to Great Britain in 1791. He continued to practice in Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen until his death at Corrachree, Aberdeenshire in 1799.
For further details see 'Fasti Academiae Mariscallanae Aberdonensis: Selections from the Records of the Marischal College and University, 1593 - 1860: Volume 2: Officers, Graduates and Alumni', ed. by Peter John Anderson, (Aberdeen: Spalding Club, 1898), p 359; and William H. Cranna, The log of a ship's surgeon, 'Caledonian Medical Journal', 21 (1923), 81 - 88. |
| Description | Journal recording Troup's return voyage from Dominica in the West Indies to his native Aberdeen and his time as a physician both in Aberdeen itself and in Cromar in Aberdeenshire, 1791 - 1797.
In addition to medical notes and remedies, the volume contains details of hs early financial difficulties, ambitions and social life including his deliberations about marriage, his illegitimate child and his disasterous courtship of Miss Rebecca Fraser of Broomhill.
There are also notes of books read, philosophical musings, quotations and sketches. |
| Publication Note | Journal of Jonathan Troup, covering travel from Aberdeen to Dominica, West Indies, 1788-1790. Northern Scotland, Volume 1, No. 1, (1970), p.122. |