John Clavie

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John Clavie
Born
Edinburgh, Kingdom of Scotland
Died1607
OccupationApothecary for the Royal Family

John Clavie or Clavee (died 1607) was a Scottish apothecary who worked for James VI and I and the royal family.

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Background

Clavie was based in Edinburgh and moved with the court to London on the Union of the Crowns. [1] He was probably related to "Jhone Clavie" or "Clavye" (died 1586), a candlemaker who supported Mary, Queen of Scots in the Marian Civil War. [2] The candlemaker John Clavie and his business partners were censured for exporting tallow in March 1569. [3]

Career

In April 1598, Edinburgh burgh hosted a banquet for Anne of Denmark's brother, Ulrik, Duke of Holstein, at the house of Ninian MacMorran at Riddle's court. Two apothecaries, John Lawtie and John Clavie sweetened and added spices to wine to make Hippocras. A third apothecary, Alexander Barclay made two pints of "vergeis" and a mutchkin of perfumed rose water. [4]

Clavie was appointed an apothecary in ordinary to King James in March 1603, and appointed to serve Anne of Denmark, Prince Henry and the other royal children on 19 July. [5]

Death

John Clavie died in 1607. He was replaced in the royal household by Lewis Lemire, an apothecary from Flanders. [6]

Family

He married Marie Aldinstoun. After Clavie's death, she married Patrick Livingstone, feuar of Saltcoats. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Elizabeth Lane Furdell, The Royal Doctors, 1485-1714: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts (New York, 2001), pp. 115, 121.
  2. ↑ Michael Lynch, Edinburgh and the Reformation (Edinburgh: John Donald, p. 320: John Graham Dalyell, Journal of the Transactions in Scotland, by Richard Bannatyne (Edinburgh, 1806), p. 314.
  3. ↑ Charles Thorpe McInnes, Accounts of the Treasurer, vol. 12 (Edinburgh, 1970), pp. 152-3.
  4. ↑ Marguerite Wood, Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh, 1589-1603 (Edinburgh, 1927), pp. 218, 362-4.
  5. ↑ Leslie Gerald Matthews, The Royal Apothecaries (London, 1967), p. 88: Thomas Rymer, Foedera, vol. 16, pp. 522, 532-3.
  6. ↑ L. G. Matthews, London's Immigrant Apothecaries, Medical History, 18 (1974), p. 263.
  7. ↑ David Masson, Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 1613-1616, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1891), p. 160.
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