John Burnet worked for the South Sea Company in the West Indies and later served as the Physician to King Philip V of Spain.
Reference:
Xabier Lamikz, Trade and Trust in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World: Spanish Merchants and their Overseas Network (London, 2010), p. 81.
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