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    Germany- u&o Switzerland ^ and resided for a considerable time in the delightful neighbourhood of Lausanne . Crossing the , Alps , they took up their residence at Turin , and were frequently at the

    court , theh not a little celebrated for the politeness and affability of the royal family . From this city they went to Florence ^ and thence to Venice , where Mr . Milliken died in April , 1763 , and Mr . K * soon after returned to Scotland .

    He had soon occasion to visit the Continent again with the second and only surviving son , to whom the air of the South of France was recommended by the physicians .

    He conducted him to Montpelie * , vrbere he staid a long time and afterwards visiteyi wittrhira several of the principal cities in France and Germany .

    Soon after his second return to this country , he settled at Bewd- * ley ^ and conducted a banking establishment there between thirty aittd forty years . The active management of its laborious and often anxious concerns , devolved on him till within a twelvemonth of his

    / death . Though his early habits had not been those of a man -of business , his industry and inviolable integrity , gav ^ the concern which he superintended an unusual respectability and permanency , and obtained for himself an

    honourable competence . Though much ptltupied > by this employ ment ^ nothing could check that ardent Jove of mental cultivation which Bfe derived from' the studies , of : hte youth . Whatever time-could h& spared froiti ^ business and from the calls of cNity ^ h , e eagerly devoted ftpsneient and modern literature ; ? ¥ 6 'to * s master o £ the Fretich and Julian Jangupges , and whea in

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    Ijialyy had translated Qgqrge Barn * "well , which was represented th $ re with , applause . . ,: Mr . K . was a decided Unitarian , at a time when that : obnoxious name belonged to few , and was owned by still fewer . He wais one of the first members of the Western

    Unitarian Society , instituted by his nephew , the late JELev . T . Kenrick . His early emancipation from Calvinism he owed to the rational principles of sacred critic cism which . he learnt from Dr .

    Leechman . He always delighted in the study of the scriptures , and frequently employed himself iji comparing the original ef the N » T . with different Lati $ translations and the principal English and Foreign Versions . His manners were marked with that dignified

    politeness , which naturally flowed from a benevolent , liberal and cul * tivated mind , guided by experience of the best society . Though his disposition was tinctured with reserve , it was wholly friee from , moroseness : towards bis family he was most affectionate and kind ; and the author of this tribute to

    his memory , can testify the lively interest which he took in the wel - fare of remoter relatives . He was universally respected apid beloved in the neighbourhood in whicty be liv £ d ; and the strong sympathy ai [ id deep xegret which w $ jr $ ek

    pressed during has painful illness and on the event of his ( featb , proved the estimation in which hfj was held by tho $ « to whom lie had been long and inlknately knowni To the grief which his numerous relatives have felt at th 0 r ^ movul

    of in © whom they Iovc 4 ap 4 honoured , is united the rficojlectipn , that ixe' was the J ^ st Survivor of a genci ^ uoa of their ancestors , wfe ^

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1812, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1744/page/10/