"captain." His medical education was obtained at St. George's hospital, and by attendance on the lectures of the two Hunters, Dr. George Fordyce, Dr. Osborne, and Dr. Denman, with the two latter of whom he was afterwards associated as a lecturer on midwifery. He became a member of the Corporation of Surgeons, and then commenced business in Chancery-lane, where he soon began to reap the fruits of his exertions both as a teacher and practitioner. As a lecturer on midwifery, he speedily gained a deservedly high reputation; his lectures contained a fund of information; the principles of the art were clearly and succinctly developed, and his practical precepts were precise, well considered, and in the highest degree judicious. He was chiefly solicitous to simplify the management of difficult cases and improve the after treatment: and how well he succeeded, our best obstetrical writers bear ample testimony. He was a good classical scholar, a man of indomitable industry and perseverance, and possessed of all the other elements for success as a practitioner. To great acuteness of perception was added a promptitude in action and a fertility of resources which obtained for him the confidence of patients and the admiration of the profession. His progress was rapid, and for many years he was confessedly at the head of his particular department of practice. He was admitted by the College of Physicians a Licentiate in Midwifery on the 2nd April, 1787, and shortly afterwards removed from Chancery-lane to the West-end. About the About the year 1791 he obtained a degree of doctor of medicine from one of the Scotch universities. Dr. Clarke eventually withdrew from the practice of midwifery, resigning that portion of his business to his brother Mr., subsequently Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, bart., M.D., and thenceforward limited his attention to the diseases of women and children. For some time before his death, which occurred in August, 1815, from organic disease of the stomach and ascites, Dr. Clarke had withdrawn in great measure from practice, and resided during half the year in the country. He was physician to the Lying-in hospital in Store-street, and to the Asylum for Female Orphans, and was for some years lecturer on midwifery at St. Bartholomew's hospital. He sent two papers to the Royal Society, and was the author of An Essay on the Epidemic Disease of Lying-in Women in 1787-8. 4to. Lond. 1788. Practical Essays on Pregnancy and Labour and the Diseases of Lying-in Women. 8vo. Lond. 1793. Commentaries on some of the most important Diseases of Children. 8vo. Lond. 1815. "The London Practice of Midwifery" was an attempt by an anonymous compiler to give the substance of Dr. Clarke's lectures, one of the excellencies of which (as I was informed by the late Sir Charles Clarke) consisted in a successful attempt to illustrate his subject by familiar analogies. Dr. Clarke's bust, by Chantry, is at Lockleys, Welwyn, co. Herts, the seat of George Edward Dering, esq. JAMES ROBERTSON BARCLAY, M.D., was born in Fifeshire, and educated at Balliol college, Oxford, where he took the two degrees in arts, A.B. 19th April, 1776; A.M. 10th October, 1778; and in April, 1780, was elected one of the Radcliffe travelling fellows. As a member of University college he proceeded M.B. 10th October, 1783; M.D. 20th October, 1783; was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 10th April, 1786; and a Fellow, 25th June, 1787. He was Censor in 1787, 1792, 1800; Gulstonian lecturer, 1788; Harveian orator, 1789; Croonian lecturer, 1791; and was named an Elect 29th December, 1800. He was elected physician to St. George's hospital 27th May, 1785, and continued in that office until 1800. He was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society 18th November, 1790; was appointed physician extraordinary to the princess of Wales in 1799; and died, I believe, in 1827. He changed his name from Robertson to Barclay in October, 1799. MARTIN WALL, M.D., was born at Worcester, and was the son of John Wall, M.D., a distinguished physician of that city. He was educated at Winchester, whence he was elected to New college, Oxford; and as a member of that house proceeded A.B. 17th June, 1767; A.M. 2nd July, 1771; M.B. 9th June, 1773; M.D. 9th April, 1777. He studied medicine also at Edinburgh and at St. Bartholomew's hospital. In 1774 Dr. Wall commenced practice as a physician at Oxford; and on the 2nd November, 1775, was elected physician to the Radcliffe infirmary. In 1781 he was appointed reader in chemistry; and on the death of Dr. Parsons, in 1785, was, after a sharp contest, elected lord Lichfield's professor of clinical medicine. He was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society 5th June, 1788. Dr. Wall was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 26th June, 1786; a Fellow, 25th June, 1787. He delivered the Harveian oration in 1788. Dr. Wall died 21st June, 1824, in his seventy-eighth year. He contributed some curious papers to the "Transactions of the Manchester Literary Society," and published the following works : The Medical Tracts of John Wall, M.D., collected, with the Author's Life. 8vo. Oxford. 1780. Dissertations on Select Subjects in Chemistry and Medicine. 8vo. Oxford. 1783. Clinical Observations on the Use of Opium in Slow Fevers. 8vo. Oxford. 1786. Malvern Waters: being a republication of Cases formerly collected by John Wall, M.D., and since illustrated by his Son. 8vo. 1806. JOHN LITTLEHALES, M.D., was born in Shropshire, and educated at Pembroke college, Oxford, as a member of which he took the two degrees in arts, A.B. 15th June, 1775; A.M. 30th April, 1778; when, coming before the College of Physicians, he was, on the 25th June, 1778, admitted an Extra-Licentiate. He then settled at Winchester; and, accumulating his degrees in physic, proceeded M.D. at Oxford 9th July, 1782. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physi cians 26th June, 1786; and a Fellow, 25th June, 1787. Near to this place are deposited the remains of Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, by the blessing of Divine Providence, were successfully exerted with a generosity so distinguished, and beneficence to the poor so diffusive and unwearied, amidst a very extended practice, that his decease was an event most deeply regretted and lamented. The principal inhabitants of Winchester and its neighbourhood, have erected this monument, as a public record of their affectionate gratitude whose faith he adorned by a life devoted to Christian benevolence, he will receive his final reward. He departed this life the 2nd of January, 1810, aged 57 years. GEORGE FORDYCE, M.D., was born at Aberdeen 18th November, 1736. He was the posthumous and only child of Mr. George Fordyce, the possessor of a small landed estate called Broadford, in the neighbourhood of that city. He received his school education at Fouran, and was transferred thence to the university of Aberdeen, where he was created master of arts when only fourteen years of age. Having evinced a partiality for the medical profession, he was sent, when fifteen years of age, to his uncle Dr. John Fordyce, who was then practising at Uppingham, in Rutlandshire. He remained with him for some years, and then proceeded to Edinburgh, where he was one of the earliest and most favoured pupils of Dr. Cullen. He graduated doctor of medicine there the 13th October, 1758 (D.M.I. de Catarrho). Dr. Fordyce then came to London to continue his studies in anatomy under Dr. William Hunter, and in botany at the Chelsea gardens. In the autumn (of 1759) he went over to Leyden for the express purpose of studying anatomy under Albinus, and pathology under Gaubius. Returning to London, he at once commenced a course of lectures on chemistry. This was attended by nine pupils. In 1764 Dr. Fordyce began to lecture also on materia medica and the prac tice of physic. These three subjects he continued to teach with rapidly-increasing reputation for nearly thirty years, giving for the most part three courses of lectures on each subject in every year. A course lasted nearly four months, and during it a lecture was delivered six times in the week. His time of teaching commenced about seven o'clock in the morning and ended at ten o'clock, his lectures on the three subjects being given one immediately after the other. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1765; and in 1770 was chosen physician to St. Thomas's hospital, after a very sharp contest with Dr., subsequently Sir William Watson, the number of votes in his favour being 109, in that of his opponent 106. In 1774 Dr. Fordyce became a member of the Literary Club; and in 1776 a fellow of the Royal Society. He was admitted a Fellow of the College of Physicians, speciali gratiâ, 25th June, 1787, and rendered most important aid in the preparation of the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis of 1788, for which his knowledge of chemistry and materia medica peculiarly fitted him. He was Censor in 1787, 1792, 1800; Gulstonian Lecturer in 1789; and Harveian orator in 1791. Dr. Fordyce was always fond of society, and in the earlier years of his life to render the enjoyment of its pleasures compatible with his professional pursuits, he used to sleep but little. He was often known to lecture for three consecutive hours in the morning without having undressed himself the preceding night. He had satisfied himself that man eats far oftener than nature requires, and for many years he took but one meal in the twenty-four hours. He dined every day for more than twenty years at Dolly's chophouse, in Paternoster-row. At four o'clock the |