of Monsey has been presented to the College within a few weeks, by Mr. Frederick Walford, of Bolton-street, Piccadilly. Monsey's portrait when over ninety years age, was engraved by Bromley, from a sketch by

Forster.

of

CALEB HILL was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 4th November, 1723. He practised at Ludlow.

JAMES ELDERTON was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 3rd March, 1723-4. He practised at Salisbury.

THOMAS LEIGH, of Farnham, Surrey, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate 17th March, 1723–4.

WILLIAM HUSSEY, of Bourne, in Lincolnshire, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College 20th April,

1724.

JOHN RADCLIFFE, M.D., was born in Middlesex, and educated at St. John's college, Oxford, as a member of which house he proceeded A.B. 2nd June, 1711; A.M. 23rd April, 1714; when, accumulating his degrees in physic, he proceeded M. D. 30th June, 1721. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1723; and a Fellow 25th June, 1724. He died the 16th August, 1729. Dr. Radcliffe was one of the physicians to St. Bartholomew's hospital, and in the records of that institution, on the occasion of his death, he is described as "a gentleman of excellent parts and sound learning, whose only crime was his singular modesty, which hindered him from being an ornament to his profession."*

JOHN DIODATI, M.D., was born in Middlesex; and as a member of Baliol college, Oxford, proceeded A.M.

* British Medical Journal, 23rd October, 1875, p. 527.

16th June, 1715; M.B. 10th July, 1718; and M.D. 9th July, 1722. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1723; and a Fellow 25th June, 1724. Dr. Diodati was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society 10th December, 1724. He was Censor in 1726; but dying 23rd May, 1727, during his year of office, was succeeded, on the 26th June, 1727, by Dr. Bouchier.

RICHARD WRIGHT was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College 25th September, 1724. He practised at Sherbourne, co. Dorset.

WILLIAM CHAMBERS, M.D., was born at Hull, and educated under Boerhaave at Leyden. He was entered on the physic line there 24th September, 1721, being then twenty-two years of age, and in due course took his degree of doctor of medicine. He was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 8th October, 1724; and then settled in his native town, Hull, where, having practised with the most distinguished reputation and success for more than half a century, he died on the 8th July, 1785, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. "He had been brought up in infancy with all the respectable part of the town of his own age, and had attended in infancy almost all the juniors; hence he was long considered not only as the physician, but the friend of all the best families in the town. He had outlived a variety of competitors, and was now yielding from the influence of opinion to others, who saw him failing from age and imbecility of body, though his mind was as strong as ever. He did not live to see, or rather did not adopt the nomenclature or nosology of Dr. Cullen, just then coming into general vogue, and he could not bear to hear of a Scotch diploma. Dr. Chambers frequently returned one-half of the money which his patients thought he had deserved, but which he thought they were imprudent in giving. A gentleman

assured me that he had often been obliged to take back a part of what he had presented him withal; and on some occasions he had found it necessary to give him a larger sum than usual, in order that he might accept a portion back again." No wonder that under these circumstances he died poor.

Dr. Chambers was buried in the church of the Holy Trinity, Hull, where a monument to his memory bears the following inscription :

Within the adjacent vault

are deposited the remains of
WILLIAM CHAMBERS, M.D.,

who, after sixty years' extensive and disinterested practice,
concluded a beneficial life the 8th day of July, 1785,
in the 86th year of his age.

By his wife, Ellen, daughter of Richard Bagshaw,
of the Oakes, in the county of Derby, esquire,
he had eleven children,

nine of whom are interred in the same vault with their parents."

ISAAC GILLING was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College 8th October, 1724. He practised at Exeter, and was the intimate friend of Dr. Musgrave, of that city, the well-known antiquary, to whom he rendered important assistance in the preparation of his great work, the Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicæ.

JAMES CAMPBELL, M.D.—A doctor of medicine of St. Andrew's of 1712 (4 Calend. Februar.) He was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society 1st December, 1718, and an Honorary Fellow of the College of Physicians 9th November, 1724. On the 2nd May, 1727, he was elected an honorary member of the College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He died 21st January, 1732-3, being then physician in ordinary to the king for Scotland.

*For these particulars I am indebted to Sir James Alderson, who has obliged me with this and other extracts from a MS. by his father, Dr. John Alderson, formerly of Hull, containing a series of very interesting sketches of his contemporaries.

WILLIAM WASEY, M.D., was born in Norfolk, and educated at Caius college, Cambridge. As a member of that house he proceeded A.B. 1712, A.M. 1716, and then proceeding to Leyden was on the 1st October, 1716, entered on the physic line there. Returning to England, he graduated M.D. at Cambridge in 1723; was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 23rd December, 1723; and a Fellow 22nd December, 1724. He was Censor in 1731, 1736, 1739, 1748; was named an Elect 30th August, 1746; and was Consiliarius in 1749 and 1754. On the death of Dr. Jurin he was elected President (2 April, 1750); and was reappointed in 1750, 1751, 1752, and 1753. Dr. Wasey was chosen physician to the Westminster hospital, at its establishment in 1719, but resigned his office there in 1733, having been one of the six physicians appointed to St. George's hospital at the first general board held 19th October, 1733. He died in April, 1757, aged sixty-two; and his library was sold by auction the same year by Davis, Lockyer, and Reymers.

Dr.

NOEL BROXOLME, M.D., was born in the county of Rutland in 1686. He was admitted a King's scholar at Westminster in 1700; and in 1705 was elected to Christchurch, Oxford, as a member of which he proceeded A.B. 20th May, 1709; A.M. 18th April, 1711. In 1715 he was elected to one of the first of the Radcliffe travelling fellowships; and accumulating his degrees in physic, proceeded M.D. 8th July, 1723. Broxolme then settled in London; was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 23rd December, 1723; and a Fellow 22nd March, 1724-5. He served the office of Censor in 1726; and delivered the Harveian Oration in 1731. He was appointed one of the physicians to St. George's hospital in 1733; and in the following year physician to the prince of Wales, with salary annexed. Dr. Broxolme died at Hampton Court by his own hand, 8th July, 1748.* By his will

* "Alumnum alterum eumque dulcissimum paulo ante Freindi

he bequeathed a legacy of 500l. for the benefit of four of the King's scholars at Westminster, on their election to the universities.

RALPH BOUCHIER, M.D., was born in Yorkshire, and was the fourth son of sir Barrington Bouchier, knt., of Benningborough, in that county, by his wife Margaret, daughter of Thomas Hardwicke, esq. He was educated at Trinity college, Cambridge; proceeded M.B. 1711; M.D. 1717; was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 30th March, 1724, and a Fellow 22nd March, 1724-5. He was Censor in 1727, 1737, 1740, 1748; and delivered the Harveian Oration in 1732. Dr. Bouchier, in December, 1736, married Barbara, daughter of sir Richard Musgrave, of Ashby, co. West

obitum in Collegium nostrum miserat Oxonium: Medicum dum vixit, Medicis carum ; dum medicinam exercuit, ægrotis carissimum. Broxholmio enim Ingenii benigna vena cum tantâ morum suavitate fuit conjuncta, ut jure dubitari possit utrum ingenio præstantior, an urbanitate fuerit amabilior? Humanitatis studiis ab ineunte ætate imbutus; summorum familiaritate virorum quotidie usus; moribusque variarum nationum penitus perspectis, omnium, post hominum memoriam, Medicorum politissimus evaserat. Ex iis qui Radclivii stipendia meruere primus omnibus posterioribus et stipendio ipse fuit ornamentum. In Broxholmii quidem inerat consuetudine tam curiosa felicitas, ut plus gratiæ apud omnes sua veritas quam aliorum obsequium inveniret. Etsi vero ab isto servili, Medicoque prorsus indigno, quo nonnulli gratiam turpissime colligunt, abhorruit obsequio, tamen in illâ honestâ atque liberali ejus specie quæ nunquam deest ingenio, admirabile est quantum cæteris excelluerit? quâ sane ægrotorum animos leniter mulcendo corporibus eorum facilius medebatur. Sed quemadmodum in corporibus nonnullis formosissimis insigniores insunt maculæ atque nævi, ita Broxholmio ipsi sua erat infirmitas. Periclitantibus suis amicis (et quot curavit ægrotos tot quidem habuit amicos) tanto plerumque dolore obruebatur, ut qui mederi anxius optabat propter id ipsum medendo non sufficerit: ita de servando ægroto supra modum erat sollicitus, ut morbum propterea oppugnaret impotentius: ita denique Amici muneri implendo erat intentus ut nonnunquam officio deesset Medici. His agitatus moeroribus a morbis refugit curandis ut mor borum ipse fieret præda rapacium. O miseram mortalitatis conditionem quam Broxholmii ipsius nec Ingenium nec Fortuna reddere potuerint tolerabilem."-Oratio Harveiana anno MDCCLV habita, auct. R. Taylor.