John Rogerson

John Rogerson (22 October 1741 – 21 December 1823) was a Scottish physician at the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. Life Rogerson was born at Lochbrow Farm neat Lochmaben on 22 October 1741, the son of Janet Johnston and Samuel Rogerson, a tenant farmer in Annandale in south-west Scotland. He was a childhood friend of George Clerk, whose family, the Clerks of Penicuik, had acquired Old Dumcrieff House in 1737. The family had to sell the estate in 1782.