William Robertson, surgeon, of Dundee

[Pertinax Augustus]

Has anyone traced their ancestry back to William Robertson, "Surgeon, of Dundee"; who was probably born in Monifieth, Angus, just 11 km from the centre of modern Dundee, on 16 November 1629 ?

As a young man he was in the service of the Dutch East India Company, and is recorded as having performed an autopsy on someone who was killed in a knife fight at the Cape of Good Hope in 1659. 

[This is documented in the Commander's diary, which can be downloaded from the Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (The Digital Library of Dutch Literature, www.dbnl.org) in the Netherlands.]

In the same year he also thwarted an attempted act of piracy by a DEIC employee, for which he was rewarded and recommended for promotion.  But by 1660 he had left the Cape of Good Hope.

Did he return to Scotland?  Does anyone know what happened to him after 1660?

Thanks, Gerald.