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‘Ma’am, you might as well ask me to get him made Archbishop of Canterbury
!’
The mother of the poetic genius withdrew, looking highly indignant at the
fit of laughter it was impossible to suppress.”
Not much of Mr. Rowland Hill’s time was devoted to authorship. Besides
his controversial pamphlets, and one or two published sermons, his “ Village
Dialogues,” “ Hymns and Token for Children,” “ Warning to Professors,”
etc., were the only productions submitted to the public. His long life, almost
unexampled for its activity, was brought to a termination in 1833, at the
age of eighty-nine.’ He retained his
faculties and usual vivacity of spirit almost to the very last. His remains were
interred with great solemnity under the pulpit of Surrey Chapel, in presence of
a large and respectable concourse of people.
Mrs. Hill died only three years before.
No. CXXXVI.
JAMES GREGORP, M.D.,
PROFESSOR OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE IN THE UKJYERSITY
OF EDINBURGH.
DR. JAMES GREGORY, the son of Dr. John Gregory, sometime Professor of
Medicine in King’s College, Aberdeen, and afterwards in the University of
Edinburgh, was born in the former city in 1753, and received the earlier part
of his education at the grammar school instituted by Dr. Patrick Dun. In consequence
of his father’s removal to Edinburgh in 1765, he subsequently studied
at the University there, and took his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1774.
He then repaired to Leyden, where he attended the lectures of the celebrated
Gobius-the favourite student and immediate successor of the great Boerhaave.
Dr. John Gregory died in 1773, before the education of his son had been
completed ; and, according to a previous arrangement, Dr. Cullen succeeded to .
the Practice of Physic. From this period the Professorship of the Institutes
of Medicine was kept open by various means till 1778, when Dr. Gregory, then
only in his twenty-third year, was appointed to the vacant chair. Although
young, he was eminently qualified for the situation, from the extent of his
When we last heard him, it w&s at his own Chapel in Blackfrim’ Road. He began thus :-
“It is t i e I were to give over preaching now, for the following reaaons among others-mt, I am
losing my memory-second, my lunp are gone.” Ee wag then standing in the pulpit, supporting
himself with a stout staff.
