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who died March 22nd, 1790, aged 76 years;
and of MARY his wife,

who died November the 7th, 1778.

Dr. Addington had survived to witness his eldest son's elevation to the chair of the house of Commons, and, yet more, the handsome manner in which the House voted in his behalf, and for the first time, a fixed annual salary in place of the fluctuating and objectionable manner, partly by fees, and partly from sinecures conferred by the Crown, in which the speakers had hitherto been remunerated. Dr. Addington's bust is in the College library. It was taken after death, by command of his distinguished son, lord Sidmouth, "to preserve in marble those features which for so many years he was accustomed to regard with delight and reverence," and was presented to the College by lord Chatham in 1827. Dr. Addington was the author of two pamphlets, viz. :

An Essay on the Scurvy, with the Method of Preserving Water Sweet at Sea. 8vo. Lond. 1753.

An Authentic Account of the Part taken by the late Earl of Chatham in a Transaction which passed in the beginning of the Year 1778, concerning a Negotiation between Lord Camden and Lord Bute.

RICHARD BROCKLESBY, M.D., was the only son of Richard Brocklesby, esq., of Cork, by his wife Mary Alloway, of Minehead, co. Somerset, where, at the residence of his maternal grandfather, he was born on the 11th August, 1722. He received his preliminary education at Ballytore, in the north of Ireland, at the same school in which Edmund Burke was subsequently educated. He commenced the study of medicine at Edinburgh, and on the 3rd March, 1742, was admitted a member of the Medical Society there. He was entered on the physic line at Leyden 22nd November, 1743, attended the lectures of Albinus, Gaubius, Oosterdijk Schacht, and Van Royen, and proceeded doctor of medicine there 28th June, 1745 (D.M.I. de Salivâ Sanâ

et Morbosa. 4to.). Soon after this Dr. Brocklesby settled in London, and was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 1st April, 1751. On the 28th September, 1754, he was created doctor of medicine by the university of Dublin; and having, in December of the same year, been incorporated at Cambridge on that degree, he was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1755; and a Fellow, 25th June, 1756. He was Gulstonian lecturer in 1758; Censor, 1758, 1763, 1765; Harveian orator in 1760; Croonian lecturer in 1763; and finally was named an Elect in 1778 in place of Dr. James Hawley, deceased. On the 1st October, 1787, Dr. Brocklesby presented to the College an elegant copy of Graevius and Gronovius's Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum et Græcarum,in 25 volumes folio, being the best edition ; for which he received the unanimous thanks of the College.

In 1758, on the recommendation of Dr. Peter Shaw, and through the patronage of lord Barrington, Dr. Brocklesby was appointed physician to the army, and in this capacity served for some time in Germany during the seven years' war. He distinguished himself there by his knowledge, zeal, and humanity, and attracted to himself the notice of the duke of Richmond, lord Pembroke, and others. In October, 1760, he was appointed physician to the hospitals for the British forces, and once more proceeded to the seat of war; but, finally, returned to England some time before the peace of 1763. He then settled in Norfolk-street, Strand, where he died somewhat suddenly on the 11th December, 1797, aged seventy-five. At dinner he appeared to be in his usual health and spirits, but he expired suddenly a few minutes after retiring to bed. He was buried at St. Clement Danes.

Dr. Brocklesby had early attained a considerable rank in his profession, and from the time he settled in Norfolk-street, had lived on terms of intimacy and friendship with the most distinguished men of his day, to whom he was recommended by his medical skill, his be

nevolence, and his literary attainments. Dr. Brocklesby was the physician and friend of Johnson, of Wilkes, and of Edmund Burke, and was generally esteemed for his acquirements, conversational and social qualities. His income from private and professional sources was more than adequate to his wants, and his table was frequently filled with persons the most distinguished for rank, learning, and abilities, in the kingdom. His generous offer to Dr. Johnson of an annuity to enable him to resort to a milder climate; and also of apartments in his own house in Norfolk-street when Johnson's confined dwelling in Bolt-court was considered injurious to his health, is well known; as is also the circumstance that, having bequeathed in his will a legacy of £1,000 to Edmund Burke, he gave it to him in his life-time, before the grant of an ample pension had made such a gift no longer necessary for his comfort. And it was Dr. Brocklesby who suggested and aided by Sir Sampson Gideon raised a subscription for the support of captain Coram, the founder of the Foundling hospital, who had impoverished himself and exhausted his means on that noble institution.* Dr. Brocklesby bequeathed his Irish estates, which were considerable, to his nephew, Mr. Beeby; and to another nephew, the very celebrated Dr. Thomas Young, his house and furniture in Norfolk-street, his library, his prints, a choice collection of pictures, chiefly selected by his friend, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and about £10,000 in money; other legacies were made to his servants and to other members of his family. Dr. Brocklesby's portrait, by Copley, was engraved by Ridley. He contributed some papers to the Philosophical Transactions, and to the " Medical Observations and Inquiries," and was the author of

* On Dr. Brocklesby's applying to Captain Coram to know whether his setting on foot a subscription for his benefit would not offend him, he received this noble answer: "I have not wasted the little wealth of which I was formerly possessed in self-indulgence or vain expenses, and am not ashamed to confess that in my old age I am poor." Biographia Britannica, Art. Coram.

An Essay concerning the Mortality among Horned Cattle. 8vo. Lond. 1746.

Economical and Medical Observations from 1758 to 1763, tending to the Improvement of Military Hospitals. 8vo. Lond. 1764. A Dissertation on the Music of the Ancients.

WILLIAM WATTS, M.D., was the son of John Watts, junr., of Danett's hall, co. Leicester, a barrister, who sank a considerable fortune in the South Sea scheme, and died in 1728, aged thirty-two, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Mosley, esq. As a doctor of medicine, of King's college, Aberdeen, of 22nd March, 1753, he was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 8th September, 1756. He practised in Leicestershire, his native county, and was a man of philanthropic aims and persuasive eloquence. By his periodical addresses to the affluent he laid the foundation of the Leicester infirmary. When Dr. Vaughan, in 1771, received the thanks of the first general meeting of the subscribers for his great care in compiling and digesting the rules and orders for the government of the infirmary, Dr. Watts also received the thanks of the meeting in language of the highest commendation as being the first public projector of that charity. Dr. Watts died 17th December, 1786, aged sixty-one, and is commemorated on a mural tablet in the chancel of Medbourne church, co. Leicester, which bears the following inscription:

In memory of
WILLIAM WATTS, M.D.,

who resided some years in this place,

where his charitable attention to the sick and needy
claims the tribute of a grateful remembrance.
In friendship few exceed him;

in benevolence none;

his name will be ever respected for the great exertions
he used to establish an infirmary at Leicester,
which he saw happily accomplished,
received the warmest acknowledgments,
and was voted a perpetual governor.

He died December 17th, 1786, aged sixty-one years.

JOHN CLERKE, M.D., was educated at Peterhouse,

Cambridge, of which he was a fellow. He proceeded A.B. 1738; A.M. 1742; M.D. 1753; was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 30th September, 1755; and a Fellow 30th September, 1756. He was Censor in 1758. Dr. Clerke settled at Epsom in 1763, and died about the year 1791, in which year his name disappears from the college list.

WILLIAM HUNTER, M.D., was born on the 23rd May, 1718, at Kilbride, in Lanarkshire. He was the son of John Hunter, the owner of a small estate called Long Calderwood, a man of excellent understanding and of great integrity, but of an anxious temper, by his wife Agnes (Paul), a woman of great worth, of a handsome person and considerable talents. When fourteen years of age he was sent to the university of Glasgow, where he passed five years, and by his behaviour and diligence acquired the esteem of his professors, and the reputation of a good scholar. At this period he was intended for the church; but some conscientious objections respecting subscription arose in his mind, and while in doubt and uncertainty he met with Dr. Cullen, who was then in practice at Hamilton. Cullen's conversation soon determined him to lay aside all thoughts of the church, and devote himself to the profession of physic. His father's consent having been obtained, Mr. Hunter, in 1737, went to reside with Dr. Cullen, and remained there for nearly three years, a period to which in after life he was accustomed to look back with the utmost pleasure, and which he regarded as the happiest of his life. It was then agreed that he should go and prosecute his medical studies at Edinburgh and London, and afterwards settle at Hamilton in partnership with Dr. Cullen. He passed the winter session of 1740-1 at Edinburgh, and in the summer of 1741 arrived in London and took up his residence with Mr. afterwards Dr. Smellie, at that time an apothecary in Pall-mall. He had brought with him from Scotland a letter of recommendation to

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