John Cor
John Cor is the name of the monk referred to in the first known written reference to a batch of Scotch Whisky on 1 June 1495.
Brother John Cor was a Tironensian monk based at Lindores Abbey in Fife. He was a servant at the court of James IV. The King gave him a gift of 14 shillings on Christmas Day in 1488, and at Christmas time in 1494 Cor was given black cloth from Lille in Flanders for his livery clothes as a clerk in royal service. He was probably an apothecary.
