founder of the Society for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of Medical Men in London and its vicinity.*

THOMAS GALLEY, M.D., was born in Lancashire. Educated at Edinburgh, where he graduated doctor of medicine 24th June, 1785 (D.M.I. de Tussi Convulsivâ), he was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 22nd December, 1786. Dr. Galley must have died within a few months of his admission, as his name does not appear in the College list for 1787.

WILLIAM BLACK, M.D., was born in Ireland, and received his medical education at Leyden, where he proceeded doctor of medicine 20th March, 1772 (D.M.I. de Diagnosi, Prognosi, et Causis Mortis in Febribus). He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 2nd April, 1787, and died at Hammersmith in December, 1829, in the eightieth year of his age. He was

the author of—

Observations Medical and Political on the Small-pox, the Advantages and Disadvantages of general Inoculation, and on the Mortality of Mankind at every Age. 8vo. Lond. 1781.

An Historical Sketch of Medicine and Surgery from their Origin to the Present time. 8vo. Lond. 1782.

A Comparative View of the Mortality of the Human Species at all Ages. 8vo. Lond. 1788.

Reasons for Preventing the French, under the Mask of Liberty, from Trampling on Europe. 8vo. Lond. 1792.

A new edition of General Monk's Observations on Military and Political Affairs. 8vo. Lond. 1796.

A Dissertation on Insanity, extracted from between Two and Three Thousand Cases in Bedlam. 8vo. Lond. 1810.

ANDREW THYNNE, M.D.-A native of Ireland, and a doctor of medicine of Rheims of 22nd August, 1775; was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 2nd April, 1787. He was in much esteem as an accoucheur, was lecturer on midwifery at St. Bartholomew's hospital, and physician to the Westminster Ly

*Gent. Mag. for 1816, vol. lxxxvi, part ii, p. 285.

ing-in hospital. He died in St. George's-fields towards the end of 1813, aged sixty-four.

DAVID BAYFORD, M.D., was born in Hertfordshire, and educated as a surgeon. He became a member of the Corporation of Surgeons, and practised in that capacity for some years at Lewes. He was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society 10th May, 1770; was created doctor of medicine by the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cornwallis, 12th April, 1782; and, having been disfranchised as a surgeon, was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 2nd April, 1787.

BENJAMIN MOSELEY, M.D., was descended from an ancient family in Lancashire, but was born in Essex. He received his professional education in London and Paris. On its completion he embarked for Jamaica, and soon after his arrival was appointed surgeon-general of the island. He remained there some years, attained a high reputation, and accumulated a considerable fortune. Returning to England, he obtained the degree of doctor of medicine from the university of St. Andrew's 12th May, 1784. In the following year he settled in London as a physician, and was admitted a Licentiate of the College 2nd April, 1787. On the death of Dr. Monsey, 1788, he was appointed, through the influence of lord Mulgrave, physician to Chelsea hospital, an office which he filled with the highest éclât for more than thirty years. Dr. Moseley died at Southend 25th September, 1819. His remains were interred at Chelsea. Though a shrewd practitioner, and undeniably a man of extensive mental capacity and very considerable attainments, Dr. Moseley was a violent opponent of vaccination. His communications on this subject to the periodical press were incessant. They did little credit to his medical penetration or his qualifications as a dispassionate searcher after truth, and, happily for his reputation, are now well-nigh forgotten. His published works are

Observations on the Properties and Effects of Coffee. 8vo. Lond.

1775.

A Treatise on Tropical Diseases; on Military Operations; the Climate of the West Indies. 8vo. Lond. 1785.

A Treatise on Sugar. 8vo. Lond. 1799.

and on

A Treatise on the Lues Bovilla, or Cow-pox. 8vo. Lond. 1801. On Hydrophobia, its Prevention and Cure. 8vo. Lond. 1808. A Review of the Report of the Royal College of Physicians of London on Vaccination. 8vo. Lond. 1808.

THOMAS SKEETE, M.D., was born in Barbadoes. After studying for six years with Mr. Farre, an eminent surgeon in the island, the father of Dr. John Richard Farre, a well-known London physician, to be subsequently mentioned, he was sent to England, and entered as a pupil at Guy's hospital. He then proceeded to Edinburgh, and after a two years' course of study in that university removed to Glasgow, and graduated doctor of medicine there on the 8th February, 1785, Dr. Skeete settled in London; was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 2nd April, 1787; and was elected physician to Guy's hospital in 1788, He died from disease of the liver 29th May, 1789, aged thirty-two. He was the author of

A Treatise on Peruvian Bark. 8vo. Lond. 1786.

A Representation of the Uncandid and Extraordinary Conduct of John Coakley Lettsom at the Election for Physician to the Finsbury Dispensary. 8vo. Lond. 1786.

WILLIAM JAMES MACNEVEN, M.D.--An Irishman, and a doctor of medicine of Vienna of 2nd June, 1785; was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 2nd April, 1787. He practised in Dublin, and was the

author of

An Essay on the Use and Construction of the Mine Auger, from the German of Mr. Geise. 8vo. Lond. 1788.

JOHN CLARKE, M.D., was born in 1758 at Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, and was the son of Mr. John Clarke, a surgeon of that town. He was educated at St. Paul's school, of which he rose to be

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"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 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.