father and other members of his family on a handsome altar tomb there. ABRAHAM CARSLAKE, M.B., was of Exeter college, Oxford, as a member of which he proceeded A.B. 14th October, 1701; A.M. 16th June, 1704; M.B. 9th December, 1708. He appeared at the College 10th March, 1708-9, and "was examined particularly for the sea service, being recommended for that purpose by the right honourable the earl of Pembroke, lord high admiral of England, and was well approved of by the President and Elects, and the following certificate was given him by them : We, the President and three of the Elects of the College of Physicians, London, have, according to Act of Parliament and in obedience to his Excellency the Lord High Admiral of England, examined Mr. Abraham Carslake, bachelor of physick, in the university of Oxford, and do approve of him as duly qualified to serve Her Majesty as a Physician in Her Majesty's fleet. Witness our hands Mar. 10, 1708." GEORGE LAMB was educated at St. John's college, Cambridge, but left the university without taking a degree. He was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 29th October, 1709, and was then residing at Wallingford, co. Berks. JOHN RICHARDSON was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 29th October, 1709. He practised at Alnwick, his native place, and was living in 1748. NATHANIEL SALMON, LL.B., was the son of the Rev. Thomas Salmon, rector of Mepsall, in Bedfordshire, by his wife, a daughter of the notorious serjeant Bradshaw. He was admitted at Benet college, Cambridge, 11th June, 1690, and took the degree of bachelor of laws in 1695. Shortly after this he took orders in the church of England, and was for some time curate of Westmill, co. Herts. Though he had taken the oaths to king William III. he refused to do so to queen Anne, and when he could no longer officiate as a clergyman he applied himself to the study of physic, which he practised first at St. Ives, in Huntingdonshire, and afterwards at Bishop's Stortford. He was settled at the last-named town 3rd February, 1709-10, when he was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians. He died 2nd April, 1742. He was a voluminous writer, as the following list of his works testifies : A Survey of the Roman Antiquities in the Midland Counties of England. 8vo. 1726. A Survey of the Roman Stations in Britain, according to the Roman Itinerary. 8vo. 1728. The History of Hertfordshire, describing the county and its ancient monuments, particularly the Roman, with the characters of those who have been the chief possessors of the lands, and an account of the most memorable occurrences. Folio. 1728. The Lives of the English Bishops from the Restoration to the Revolution. 8vo. 1733. The Antiquities of Surrey, collected from the most ancient records, with some account of the present state and natural history of the county. 8vo. 1736. The History and Antiquities of Essex, from the collections of Mr. Strangeman, with notes and illustrations. Folio. 1739. JOHN ARBUTHNOT, M.D., was descended from the noble family of his name and was the son of a clergyman of the episcopal church of Scotland. He was born at Arbuthnot, near Montrose, and was educated at the university of Aberdeen, where he took the degree of doctor of medicine. The Revolution deprived the father of his church preferment; and though he was possessed of a small paternal estate, yet necessity compelled the son to seek his fortune abroad, Arbuthnot therefore quitted Scotland, and went to reside at Doncaster, where, however, he met with so little success that he speedily left, and coming to London found an abode in the house of Mr. William Pate, a "learned" woollen draper. He commenced his career in town by teaching mathematics, but the appearance Dr. His in 1695 of Dr. Woodward's "Essay towards a Natural History of the Earth," containing as Arbuthnot thought, an account of the deluge wholly inconsistent with truth, induced him to publish a reply. This work not only excited much curiosity, but had the further, and, as regarded his interests, the more important effect of attracting attention towards himself, and of giving him no small degree of literary fame. This soon afterwards received a considerable and deserved increase by his "Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning." 8vo. 1700. About this time Arbuthnot commenced practice in the metropolis, and as his contemporaries testify, with every qualification to ensure success. extensive learning and facetious and agreeable conversation, introduced him by degrees to practice, and he soon became eminent in the profession. Being accidentally at Epsom when prince George of Denmark was suddenly taken ill, he was called to his assistance. The doctor's advice was successful, and the prince recovering employed him ever afterwards as his physician. In 1709, upon the indisposition of Dr. Hannes, Arbuthnot was appointed physician in ordinary to queen Anne, and soon obtained her Majesty's high favour. Swift calls him "the Queen's favourite physician," and "the Queen's favourite." As her Majesty's physician, Arbuthnot was instrumental in recovering the queen from a dangerous illness, and to this incident Gay, in the prologue to the "Shepherd's Week," thus alludes: A skilful leech (so God him speed) They say had wrought this blessed deed. He saved the realm, who saved the Queen. Arbuthnot was created doctor of medicine at Cam bridge 16th April, 1705. On the 12th December, 1707, he was elected an honorary fellow of the College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and as physician in ordinary to the queen, was admitted a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 27th April, 1710. He was Censor in 1723; delivered the Harveian Oration in 1727; and was named an Elect in place of Dr. Slare, deceased, 5th October, 1727. On the 12th November, 1713, he was appointed by the queen physician to Chelsea hospital. Dr. Arbuthnot's gentle manners, extensive learning, and excellent talents introduced him to the intimate acquaintance and warm friendship of the most celebrated literary characters of his time-to Pope, Swift, Gay, and Parnell, whom he met as a member of the Scriblerus club. It was not long before Arbuthnot added a new lustre to that constellation of wits by the brightness of his own. With Pope and Swift his relations were of the most intimate kind. Arbuthnot possessed all the wit of the dean without his virulence and indelicacy; and a considerable portion of the genius of Pope, without his querulous discontent. In 1714 he engaged with them in a design to write a satire on the abuses of human learning in every branch, which was to have been executed in the manner of Cervantes, under the history of feigned adventures. They had observed that these abuses still kept their ground against all that the gravest and ablest authors could say to discredit them. They concluded, therefore, that the force of ridicule was wanting to quicken their disgrace, which was here in its place, when the abuses had already been detected by sober reasoning, and truth was in no danger of suffering by the premature use of so powerful an instrument. But a stop was put to this project by the queen's death, when they had only drawn out an imperfect essay towards it, under the title of The First Book of the Memoirs of Martinus ScribleDr. Warburton tells us that "Gulliver's Travels," 'The Treatise of the Profound," the "Literary Criti rus. cism on Virgil," and the "Memoirs of a Parish Clerk," are only so many detached parts and fragments of this work. The same writer does not hesitate to declare that polite letters never lost more than by the defeat of this scheme, in which each of this illustrious triumvirate would have found exercise for his own peculiar talent, beside constant employment for that which they all had in common. Arbuthnot was skilled in everything that related to science; Pope was master of the fine arts; and Swift excelled in knowledge of the world: wit they had all in equal measure, and so abundant a degree, that no age, perhaps, ever produced three men on whom nature had more bountifully bestowed it, or in whom art had brought it to higher perfection. The queen's death, and the disasters which fell upon his friends on that occasion, deeply affected Arbuthnot's spirits, and to divert his melancholy he paid a visit to his brother at Paris. His stay there however, was but short; he returned to London, and having on the death of the queen lost his apartments in St. James's palace, took a house in Dover-street. He continued to practise his profession with good reputation, and diverted his leisure hours in writing papers of wit and humour. In 1732 he contributed towards detecting and punishing the frauds and abuses which had been carried on under the name of the "Charitable Corporation." In 1734, having then for some years suffered severely from asthma, Arbuthnot retired to Hampstead, in hopes of finding some relief from his symptoms, but he died at his house in Cork-street, 27th February, 1735, anl was buried at St. James's, Piccadilly. He left one son and one daughter; the former, George, was one of the executors to Pope's will, and held the place of first secretary in the Remembrance office. A fine portrait of Dr. Arbuthnot, presumed to be by Jervas, formerly in the possession of Dr. Turton, bishop of Ely, was purchased for the College at the sale of the bishop's effects, in 1864, and is on the staircase. An engraving of Arbuthnot, now exceedingly scarce, is mentioned by |