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• ficial account . The late Sir John Carter , of Portsmouth , whose useful lite and distinguished character are recorded in the 3 rd volume of the Monthly Repository , was first cousin to the subject of this article .
Dr . John Bayly was born on the 17 th of February , 1735 . Although , as a child , his constitution was feeble and valetudinary , he was , at a verv early agey sent to a grammar school at Lymington , then taught by the Rev . Mr . Pearson . Before he had
attained his twelfth year he was transferred to the more efficient instruction of Mr . Wood , of St . Albans , a gentleman who at that time enjoyed a very high and deserved reputation as a schoolmaster , and who had had
the honour of educating Mr . Hollis , Dr . Doddridge , and other eminent persons among the Dissenters . At this school Dr . B . laid the solid foundation of those classical attainments ,
which , to the latest year of his life , opened to him sources of pure and elegant gratification . The death of his valuable and respected preceptor occasioned his removal from St .
Albans at an earlier age than his friends or he himself wished . After a short interval passed under the tuition of his father , who , though excellently well qualified for the business of instruction , had too much business of
another kind to attend to it , he was sent to the academy at Taunton , at that time under the superintendance of the learned and worthy Dr . Amory , than whom 110 man was more fitted by his example to infuse into his pupils a fervent and rational piety , and
the love of every thing excellent . In the year 1754 , having completed his third year at the academy , Dr . B . repaired to Edinburgh and entered on the studies preparatory to his future profession . After attending with great diligence the public and private lectures delivered at that celebrated
university , being received as a member by several of the more reputable societies there , and having passed with great credit through the usual examinations , he took his degree of Doctor of Physic . On this occasion he published and defended a thesis de Frigore quatenus morborum Causa , a performance in which excellence of
latter , skill in arrangement , and a POre and flowing latinity are alike conspicuous . Having passed one win-
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ter in attending on the medical prac ~ tice of the largest hospital in the metropolis , he returned to his native city in the spring of the year 1759 , and immediately took a part in the professional labours of his father . This
connexion , so useful to the young ph * , sician , and so agreeable to both , was , in the month of December , 1771 , dissolved by the lamented death of Dr . George Bayly . From his earliest youth Dr . B . was liable to frequent attacks of severe
head-ache , and to catarrhous and febrile complaints . Notwithstanding many painful interruptions from these causes he continued , during more than twenty years , to exert himself in his profession with unremitted diligence , with signal success , and with 3
liberality and disinterestedness of which there are few examples . Increasing ill health rather than advancing years induced him gradually to withdraw from the constantly recurring causes
of great bodily and mental fatigue , and to enjoy in retirement and in the society of a very few select friends the fruits of early study , and the retrospect of maturer years devoted to active and benevolent exertion . The
comfort of his declining life was much lessened by occasional attacks of sickness , and by the almost constant pressure of slighter indisposition , and his last illness , though short , was accompanied by so much pain as to unfit him for attending to any thing but his bodily sufferings *
He needed no death-bed preparation for the change that awaited him . His whole life was a preparation for eternity . . If moral conduct the most pure and correct , integrity the most
perfect , benevolence the most diffusive , and piety not less fervent than , rational—if these qualities united form an example to be imitated by contemporaries and suceessors , such an example was furnished by our lamented friend .
His opinions and principles on political and religious subjects were such as might be expected from a mind endowed and cultivated an his was . No man could be more devoted
to the cause of civil and religious liberty . This attachment descended to him through successive ancestor on both sides of his house , and he regarded it as by no means the least valuable part of his inheritance . It is
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Obituary — -Dr . John Bayly . 763
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1815, page 763, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1767/page/35/
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