page_title: Gilbert Primrose (surgeon)
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Gilbert Primrose (surgeon) / Death
caption_attribution_description: Detail of inscription on tomb of Gilbert Primrose in Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh
context_page_description: Gilbert Primrose was a Scottish surgeon who became Surgeon to King James VI of Scots and moved with the court to London as Serjeant-Surgeon to King James VI and I on the Union of the Crowns. He was Deacon of the Incorporation of Surgeons and Barbers of Edinburgh on three occasions.
context_section_description: Gilbert Primrose died in Westminster, London on 18 April 1616 and was buried in Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh where his monument still stands.  His grave carries a Latin inscription translated as:
  To Gilbert Primrose, Chief Surgeon to James and Anne, King and Queen of Great Britain, France and Ireland. His heirs erected this monument. He lived happily 80 years.  To the end of his life he was Chief Surgeon to the King, and died, adorned with testimonials of public sorrow from Prince and people, in the year of our Lord 1616 on the 8th of April.
  Great Gilbert Primrose shut his mortal eyes
  Full fraught with honours as with length of days
  My will and life to Christ I still resign'd
  
  Hence neither life nor death did bitter find
caption: Detail of inscription on mural monument at the tomb of Gilbert Primrose in Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh
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