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Dr. Jahn Rotherham, his eldest
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To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository ...
Dissenters , from the experience they derived principally from him . " As the head of a religious society , he was a great ornament to this place .
* As a Protestant Dissenter , he was a credit to his professson : for he was a friend , a faithful friend to liberty , the distinguishing principle of that profession .
* ' As a member of civil society , he was a zealous friend to public happiness and tranquillity ; particularly as a good townsman , his loss will be regretted . So much did he delight in its prosperity ,
wishing well to its liberties , studying its interests , and being ready to defend its just rights , that it is not strange his zeal for the good of the town , and his abilities to
promote that good , ( being so well known and respected , ) should often meet with many considera - ble opportunities , in which they were exerted with success . Thus
he was a benefit to the public . " And in his more private life , as the head of a numerous family , he was most tenderly affectionate
in every relation . He was affable , agreeable , and friendly , to all , and his conversation always afforded pleasure and satisfaction /' Dr . Rotherham left three sons :
John , the physician above mentioned , William , who went into the army , became a colonel of marines , arid died commander of
the troops at Portsmouth dock , yard , about 1 7 ^ 4 , and Caleb who ( after an interval of about three years spent at Daventry , where he was an intimate
associate of Dr . Priestley ) succeeded his father as minister at Kendal , and died in 17— . He had also two daughters .
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Dr. Jahn Rotherham, His Eldest
Dr . Jahn Rotherham , his eldest
Dr. Jahn Rotherham, His Eldest
son , having received an excellent mathematical education under his father , became , during the prosecution of his medical studies at
Edinburgh , a favourite pupil of the celebrated M'Laurin , and , under his patronage , delivered a course of Lectures on Experiment tal Philosophy , in the Theatre of the ( then new ) Royal Infirmary * He still continued his attachment
to these pursuits ; and , both during his residence at Hexham , and after his removal to Newcastle , he gave several courses of Lectures to crowded audiences .
He was an eminent and successful practitioner ; but devoted his principal attention to the line of midwifery , of which he had for many years the almost exclusive posses * sion . He died in 1787 > aged 68 L Of his numerous family , his
eldest son , John Rotherham , M . D . studied at Upsal , under Linnaeus , Bergman , & c . and having been some time assistant to Dr . Black , at Edinburgh , was elected Profes - sor of Natural Philosophy in the university of St- Andrew ' s , where he died about 18 O 4 . —His second
son , Edward Rotherham , Esq . of the Royal Navy , has been engaged in many of the principal actions of the late and present wars , and particularly distinguished himself as captain of the Royal Sovereign :
Lord Collingwood s flag-ship , at the battle of Trafalgar ; both during the action , and in the subsequent more arduous duty of pre * serving the British and captive
vessels , and the lives of their crews , from' Ihe dangers of the storm which followed , in their dreadfully crippled state . V . F .
( N * R . The list of Studen t * at Kcndaly teitk Biographical JVotices * in a future number . )
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 221, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/5/
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