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Besides the Professorship, Dr. Hope held the appointment of Physician to
the Royal Infirmary ; and in this department of his public duty, his humane
and enlightened attention to the diseases of the patients under his care, and his
judicious prescriptions for curing and alleviating their disorders, were most
exemplary and instructive.
About the year 1760 Dr. Hope married Juliana, daughter of Dr. Stevenson,
physician in Edinburgh, by whom he had four sons and a daughter. After
long enjoying mnch domestic felicity and high honour in his profession, both
as a physician and professor, he died, while President of the Royal College of
Physicians, after a short illness, on the 10th November 1786, in the sixty-second
year of his age. His third son, Dr. Thomas Charles Hope, afterwards (1837)
filled the chair of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh.
No. CCCXII.
SECOND DIVISION OF THE COURT OF SESSION.
TEE Senators composing this Sitting (beginning at the left), are LORDS
ARMADALWE, OODHOUSELEGEL,E NLEEM, EADOWBANRKO, BERTSONan, d GILLIES
-the LORDJ USTICE-CLER{KB OYLEp) residing in the centre. The Print bears
the date of March 1812, yet three of the seven Judges represented still survive.'
namely, Lord Glenlee, the Lord Justice-clerk, and Lord Gillies. Save the two
last mentioned, Portraits of the other Senators have successively appeared in the
course of this Work.
THER IGHT HON. DAVID BOYLE, LORDJ USTICE-CLERKth,e fourth, but
only surviving, son of the Hon. Patrick Boyle of Shewalton (third son of John
the second Earl of Glasgow) was born in 1772. Mr. Boyle, after the usual
course of study requisite for the Scottish bar, passed advocate in December
1793. He was constituted Solicitor-General for Scotland in 1807, and the
same year elected member of Parliament for the county of Ayr, which he continued
to represent until his elevation to the bench in 1811. He was at the
same time nominated a Lord of Justiciary; and in November of that year
appointed Lord Justice-clerk in the room of the Right Hon. Charles Hope,
who had been Promoted to the Presidency.
Throughout the long period during which the Lord Justice-clerk filled this
office he efficiently qscharged its important duties, both as a criminal and a
civil judge. Not content with making himself fully master of the different civil
cwes coming before him, by a previous diligent perusal of the printed records
and pleadings, he carefully noted down any observations of importance
At the date of the first edition of this work, 1837-8,
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