June, 1809 (D.M.I. de Febre Continua). He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 16th April, 1810, and then commenced business as a physician in London. Sir Benjamin Outram was admitted a Fellow of the College 9th July, 1852, and died at Brighton 16th February, 1856, aged eighty. He was the author of Suggestions to Naval Surgeons previous to, during, and after Battle. WILLIAM BROMET, M.D., a Londoner by birth, and a doctor of medicine of Edinburgh of 24th June, 1809 (D.M.I. de Hydropum Causis), was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 16th April, 1810. He was surgeon to the first Life Guards, and died at Boulogne 7th June, 1850. JAMES CLOUGH, M.D., a doctor of medicine of St. Andrew's, of 16th December, 1809, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 4th May, 1810. He practised at Manchester. HENRY JAMES CHOLMELEY, M.D., was born in Lincolnshire, and was the third son of Montague Cholmeley, of Easton, in that county, esquire, by his wife, Sarah, a daughter of the Rev. Humphrey Sibthorpe, D.D. In 1792, being then fifteen years of age, he was admitted to St. Peter's, Westminster, whence he was elected in 1796 to Christ church, Oxford, of which he became a faculty student. He proceeded A.B. 30th April, 1800, A.M. 17th February, 1803, M.B. 11th April, 1804, M.D. 19th July, 1807, was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 26th June, 1809, a Fellow 25th June, 1810, and was Censor in 1814, 1824, 1834. Dr. Cholmeley was elected physician to Guy's hospital in 1811, and retained that office until his death, which occurred at his house in New Bridgestreet, Blackfriars, on the 14th June, 1837, in his sixtieth year. THOMAS SMITH, M.D., was born in the county of Durham, and received his medical education at Edinburgh, where he graduated doctor of medicine 24th June, 1787 (D.M.I. de Medicina Sectæ Methodica Veteris). He settled at Nottingham, and in 1791 was elected physician to the General hospital in that town, an office which he resigned in 1798. He removed subsequently to Bury St. Edmund's, where he practised for many years, and was appointed physician to the Suffolk General hospital. Dr. Smith was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1810, and died at Bury St. Edmund's 12th February, 1848, aged eighty-three. THOMAS JONES, M.D., of the university of St. Andrew's, of 31st March, 1810, was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1810. One Thomas Jones, M.D., presumably our Licentiate, died 26th May, 1848, aged sixty-eight, at John's Town, near Carmarthen. DONALD MACKINNON, M.D., was born in the Isle of Skye, and received his general education at King's college, Aberdeen, where he took the degree of master of arts. His medical studies were pursued in Edinburgh, under the immediate direction of his relative, Dr. Alexander Monro, the professor of anatomy and physiology in that university. He graduated doctor of medicine at Edinburgh the 12th September, 1807 (D.M.I. de Epilepsia), shortly after which he settled in London, under the auspices of his uncle, Dr. Macqueen, and on the 25th June, 1810, was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians. Dr. Mackinnon practised for many years in London, and was physician to the Royal Caledonian asylum. Eventually he withdrew from practice, and retired to Tunbridge Wells; but ultimately returned to London, and died at his house in Norlandsquare, Notting-hill, on the 10th June, 1849. SIR THOMAS CHARLES MORGAN, M.D., was the eldest son of John Morgan, esq., of Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. After a sound preparatory education at Eton and the Charterhouse, he was entered at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and as a member of that college proceeded M.B. 1804, M.D. 1809. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 30th September, 1809, and a Fellow 1st October, 1810. He accompanied the marquis of Abercorn to Ireland as his physician, and was knighted by him in Dublin. Although well qualified to succeed as a physician, Sir Thomas Morgan soon withdrew from the exercise of his profession, and devoted himself exclusively to literature and politics. To this course he was probably led by his wife, a pleasing writer, and the authoress of some well-known works of travels. Sir Thomas Morgan was an ardent whig, and during his residence in Ireland devoted much of his time and talents to the cause of Catholic emancipation, which he advocated in the public journals and periodicals. He was a warm lover of civil and religious liberty, and his house, both in Dublin and London, was always open to sufferers in that cause from whatever land they came. When his political friends, the whigs, succeeded to office, he was appointed one of the commissioners of Irish Fisheries, and the reports he made in that capacity were remarkable for their clearness and perspicuity. He died at his house in William-street, Lowndes-square, on the 28th August, 1843. "Sir T. Charles Morgan was a very accomplished and justly popular member of the refined and intellectual society in which he and Lady Morgan had mingled both abroad and at home. A writer of great ability, an honest politician, an amiable and most enlightened man, he has claims to be long regretted by a wide circle of every class of opinion. While his mind kept equal pace with the progress of liberal views, his tastes were formed and resolutely fixed in what we call the best old school. He was never at a loss for a witty or wise passage from Rabelais or Bayle.' Sir Charles was a frequent con * Examiner. tributor to our best literary periodicals. He contributed the chapters on law, medical science, and statistics to Lady Morgan's books of travels in France and Italy, and was joint author with her of the "Book without a Name." We have also from his pen Sketches of the Philosophy of Life. 8vo. Lond. 1819. RICHARD SIMMONS, M.D., was born in London, and was the only son of Samuel Foart Simmons, M.D., a distinguished physician, already mentioned in the second volume. He was of Christ church, Oxford, as a member of which he proceeded A.B. 18th November, 1802, A.M. 1st July, 1805, M.B. 16th June, 1806, and M.D. 8th June, 1809. Dr. Simmons was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 30th September, 1809, a Fellow 1st October, 1810, and was Gulstonian lecturer in 1812. Inheriting an ample patrimony, he had no need of professional exertion, and was little solicitous of business, which for many years he wholly declined. He died at St. Leonard's-on-sea 18th September, 1846, in the sixty-fifth year of his age, and bequeathed to the university of Oxford his collection of minerals and to the National Gallery fourteen pictures, which he himself valued at four thousand pounds. JOHN GEORGE DWYER, M.D., was born in the county of Clare, and graduated doctor of medicine at Edinburgh, 24th June, 1805 (D.M.I. de Cynanche Tracheali). He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 1st October, 1810. Dr. Dwyer (I believe) died in Dublin, 7th May, 1829. ADAM BLACK, M.D., was born in Lanarkshire, and educated in general literature and his future profession at the college of Edinburgh, under the immediate superintendence of his kinsman, Dr. Black, the professor of chemistry in the university. He graduated doctor of medicine at Edinburgh, 12th September, 1809 (D.M.I. de Melancholia), and was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 1st October, 1810. He then settled at Chelsea, and was mainly instrumental in founding the Chelsea dispensary, to which he was appointed physician. Dr. Black died at his house in Piccadilly, 3rd March, 1847, aged sixty-two. While standing with his back to the fire, he was seized with giddiness, and fell, and was so severely burnt that he died the following day. JOHN BUNNELL DAVIS, M.D., was born at Clare, in the county of Suffolk, and was the son of Mr. Timothy Davis, a surgeon apothecary, at Thetford, in Norfolk, who subsequently removed to London and became surgeon to the Customs. He was educated at the Borough hospitals, and became a member of the college of Surgeons. A severe illness at this period led to his undertaking a journey to the south of France with a family of distinction during the short peace of Amiens. His detention in that country as a prisoner of war enabled him to pursue his studies in medicine at Paris and Montpelier, at which latter university he took a degree in 1803. Dr. Davis was compelled after a time to take up his abode at Verdun. There he published " Observations on Precipitate Burial and the Diagnosis of Death," a copy of which he forwarded to Corvisart, first physician to Buonaparte and the Empress, with a petition to Buonaparte to allow him to return to England. The permission to do so was accorded through Corvisart in May, 1806. Shortly after his return Dr. Davis proceeded to Edinburgh to complete his medical studies, and there graduated doctor of medicine 24th June, 1808 (D.M.I. de Phthisi Pulmonali). In 1810 he was appointed by the Army Medical Board temporary physician to the forces, to attend the sick troops returned from Walcheren.* Dr. Davis was admitted a Licen * Authentic Memoirs, Biographical, Critical, and Literary, of the most Eminent Physicians and Surgeons, &c. 2nd edition. 8vo. Lond. 1828, p. 434. |