Europe. He was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 9th November, 1767; and then, passing over to Holland, proceeded master of arts and doctor of medicine at Leyden 20th January, 1768 (D.M.I. de Variolis ac Morbillis iisque Inoculandis, 4to.). Dr. Spry commenced his career as a physician at Totnes, where he practised for three or four years with considerable success. Desirous, however, of a wider field for his exertions, he determined on removing to his native town. Prior thereto, he passed a session at Edinburgh; and on the 3rd May, 1774, was admitted a fellow of the College of Physicians there. Returning to Devonshire, he proceeded direct to Plymouth, where he arrived but a few months before Dr. Remmett, with whom he shared for some years the practice and professional emoluments of the town and neighbourhood. Dr. Spry was a good linguist. He wrote Latin with great facility and elegance; his knowledge of Greek was considerable, and he read Hebrew and Arabic. To these he added an acquaintance with French and German. In his exercise at Leyden for his doctor's degree, are numerous quotations in all these languages. Those in Hebrew and Arabic occur, indeed, with a frequency that savours somewhat of ostentatious display. I have not recovered the precise date of Dr. Spry's death. It must have occurred before October, 1796, for his name has disappeared from the College list then published.

JOHN KEAY, of Newmarket, in the county of Flint, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 15th December, 1767.

JOHN TAPRELL, of the county of Derby, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College 19th February, 1768.

NICHOLSON DOUBLEDAY, M.D., was the seventh son of Humphrey Doubleday, of Butterby and Old Elvet,

co. Durham (who died in 1727, aged sixty-two), by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Martin Nicholson, of Durham, merchant. He was a doctor of medicine of the university of Rheims, and was admitted an ExtraLicentiate of the College of Physicians 29th March, 1768. He practised first at Hexham, and then at Berwick-upon-Tweed, and died 12th April, 1802.

JOHN TURTON, M.D., was born in Staffordshire, and educated at Queen's college, Oxford, as a member of which he proceeded A.B. 16th June, 1756; A.M. 31st May, 1759. He was elected Radcliffe travelling fellow in May, 1761, and in September of that year was entered on the physic line at Leyden. As a member of University college he proceeded M.B. 11th December, 1762, and M.D. 27th February, 1767. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 24th September, 1767; and a Fellow, 30th September, 1768; was Censor in 1769, 1775, 1782, 1788; and was named an Elect 25th June, 1788. Dr. Turton's progress as a physician was unusually rapid, and he accumulated a very ample fortune. In 1771 he was appointed physician to the queen's household; in 1782, physician in ordinary to the queen, and physician extraordinary to the king; and in 1797, physician in ordinary to the king, and to the prince of Wales. Dr. Turton was a fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Royal Society of Medicine of Paris. He resigned his place of Elect 26th December, 1800, and died the 14th of April, 1806, aged seventy, leaving to his widow a life interest in the whole of his fortune, a few legacies only excepted, namely, nine thousand a year in landed estates, most of which were in Yorkshire, and sixty thousand pounds in the funds. Having no family, Dr. Turton adopted as his heir his kinsman, Mr. Edmund Peters, who assumed the name of Turton on succeeding to the property. Dr. Turton purchased Brasted-place, co. Kent, of lord Frederick Campbell, and made it his country house. He pulled down the old mansion, “venerable

enough for its antiquity," said Philipott, and built the original portion of the present imposing mansion. To his new house Dr. Turton transferred some interesting mementoes of royal favour. The clock which now tells the time to the inhabitants of Brasted was a present from George III, and had once a more exalted position and the more public duty of striking the hours, as the time oracle of all London from the turret at the Horse Guards. And on the wall of the billiard-room is still preserved the document which the emperor of China had forwarded to the king illustrating the different arts and manufactures of the Celestial empire. This was a present from queen Caroline to her physician.*

Dr. Turton is commemorated in Brasted church by a massive white marble monument a sarcophagus on which are placed a bible and prayer-book, and a snake coiled round a staff. The monument bears the following inscription :

Mary the wife of John Turton, M.D.,
caused this monument to be erected
to the memory of her beloved husband.
Eminently skilled in the medical art,
He saved or lengthened the lives of others.

His own alas! this marble tells us no art could save.
With full hope in Christ, of life to come immortal,
He died April 14th, 1806, aged 70.

His widow survived until 28th January, 1810, and is also commemorated in Brasted church.

WILLIAM COOPER, M.D., was born in Worcestershire. On the 24th November, 1766, being then twenty-five years of age, he was entered on the physic line at Leyden, where he graduated doctor of medicine 3rd February, 1767 (D.M.I. de Abortionibus). He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 20th March, 1769. Dr. Cooper was chiefly engaged in the practice of midwifery, and was one of the physicians to

* History of Brasted, its manor, parish and church, by J. Cave Brown, A.M. 8vo. Westerham. 1874.

the charity for delivering poor married women at their own houses. He died in May, 1779.

PETER HOOKE, A.M., was of Catherine hall, Cambridge, and proceeded A.B. 1753; A.M. 1756. He was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 23rd May, 1769. He settled at Norwich, was appointed physician to the Norfolk and Norwich hospital on its establishment in 1772, and dying at his house in that city in September 1804, was buried the 3rd October at St. Stephen's church.

JOHN BOSTOCK, M.D., was educated at Edinburgh, under Dr. Cullen, whose esteem and affection he soon succeeded in obtaining. His assiduity in the study of practical medicine in the wards of the Royal infirmary attracted the marked notice of Dr. Cullen, and called forth from him the following handsome encomium on the occasion of Dr. Bostock's graduation :-"Quantum in studio practico operam posuit, norunt condiscipuli ejus omnes qui viderunt quot et quantos labores in Nosocomio exantlaverit, dum college amicissimo et mihi assiduus comes et adjutor egregius, ipse praxin medicam penitus ediscere voluit, nec ex dictatis nostris, sed noctu diuque ad lectos ægrotantium assidens a natura ipsa quid faciat aut ferat noscere voluit." He graduated doctor of medicine at Edinburgh in 1769 (D.M.I. de Arthritide), and was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians of London 13th March, 1770. Dr. Bostock settled at Liverpool in that year, and was at once appointed physician to the Royal infirmary there. Dr. Cullen predicted that his talents would se cure for him a brilliant future, but the hopes of his friends were doomed to be disappointed. "He had scarcely settled in Liverpool, married advantageously, and become possessed of a son,* than he sank beneath an incurable disease, himself predicting the fatal termi

*The future John Bostock, M.D., V.P.R.S., the physiologist.

nation, calmly resigning the sweetest blandishments of life, and in his last moments emulating the exit of a Socrates or a Seneca."* Dr. Bostock died 10th March,

1774, at the age of thirty.

JAMES MADDOCKS, M.D., was born in Herefordshire, and studied his profession at Edinburgh, where he graduated doctor of medicine in 1762 (D.M.I. de Lavatione Frigidâ). He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 9th April, 1770; was elected physician to the London hospital 19th September, 1770; and died in October, 1786. His portrait, painted by Caldwell, was engraved by Trotter.

GEORGE HICKS, M.D.-A native of Kent, educated at Edinburgh, where he took the degree of doctor of medicine 13th June, 1768 (D.M.I. de Enteritide); was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 9th April, 1770. He held the appointment of physician to the Westminster hospital from 1775 to his death, which occurred at Rochester in December, 1792.

JOHN COAKLEY LETTSOM, M.D., was born in the small island of Little Vandyke, near Tortola, in December, 1744, and when only six years of age was sent to England for his education. Fortuitous circumstances threw him on landing in the way of Mr. Fothergill, a well-known preacher among the Society of Friends, and brother to the celebrated London physician. By his advice young Lettsom was sent to a school near Warrington, where Mr. Fothergill resided, then kept by Mr. Thompson, where he remained for several years. Selecting medicine as his profession, he was placed by Mr. Fothergill, who, in consequence of the death of Lettsom's father, had become his guardian, with Mr. Sutcliff, of Settle, in Yorkshire. On the termination of his apprenticeship Lettsom came to London, where he

*Thomson's Life, Lectures, and Writings of William Cullen, M.D., vol. i, p. 645, et seq.