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OBFTUARY.
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Samuel P ett , Esq ., M . D . ( Sfeep ., 570 The subject of this memoir was t > orn on the 24 th of September , in the year 1765 , of a respectable family of Protestant Dissenters , at Liskeard , in the
county of Cornwall . He received the rudiments of his education at the Grammar * School of that town . In 1781 , and in his 16 th year , he entered the Dissenting Academy at Daventry , then under the superintendauce of the Rev . Thomas
Belsham , the present minister of Essex Street . ( Mon . Repos . XVII . 285 . ) His excellent character shone out in this eariy period of his life , and some of his most valuable friendships were formed with persons who were his fellow pupils . For his tutor he entertained sentiments
of the highest respect and esteem , and for no one of the many gentlemen under his care did the tutor feel a warmer regard . In an affectionate letter , written on occasion of his death , Mr . Belsham says , in reference to his character as a student , ** Entering with his whole soul
into the innocent gaieties of youth , he was distinguished at all times by the steadiness of his conduct , by his respect for religious principles , and by an ardent thirst after knowledge and ambition of improvement ; while , at the same time ,
the suavity of his temper , and the courtesy of his manners , rendered him the object of universal affection and esteem /' On leaving the Academy , he was for Home time undecided in the choice of his profession . He eutered himself of one of
the inns of Court in London , and for a short period turned his attention to the law ; but not finding legal studies agreeable to the bent of his mind , he exchauged them for those of medicine . To pursue these to the greatest advantage , he entered in 1789 the University of Edinburgh .
Here he passed tjiree sessions : but being called home to JEngland by the private concerns of his family , " for one winter , he did not graduate till the year 1793 . His Thesis for his degree , printed at Edinburgh , in th $ t yea * , hem's the
following title ? ** DisseHatib Medica Inauguralis de Colica Pictoiram . Qtiam , Annueute Siimma Numine , ex Auctoritate Heverendi admodum Viri D . Gulielmi RobertsonvSvS . T . P ; , Acadejiiixe Edinburgenes Praefecti , necnOli Amplissitm Henatas 'Academtci Consensn , et ndbU lissimae F ^<* ult ^ i 8 Medieae Decrfeto ^ pro Gradu f ><^ t <* ii «; ^ mniwisque iii Miedi ^ na Honoribus afc PrtVitegife riee et leghime
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consequents ; Erudftonmiexamlutfelilyicit Samuel Pett , Angtisi Spc . Med ; Jgdin . Soc . necnon Soc . Nat JStud . EiJin ., g < od . Extl ) . et nuper Praeses annuiis . Ad -diem 24 Junii , homJocoque sdlitis /* On printing
bis Dissertation , Dr , Pett dedicated it to his respected tutor and valued friend , Mx . Belsham , in the following appropriate terms ; * * ftevefendo Thornae Belsham , cam ob Consiila et Praecepta , tutja ob Amicitiam , qua perplures annos illuin dignatus est , semper colendo ; hoc
Opusculum , animi gratissimi et dcvinctissiuii testimonium , sacrum voluit Auctor . " As a member of the Medical Society of Edinburgh , Dr . Pett contributed a paper on the office of the Merubrana Tympani c which is amongst the Society ' s manuscripts . Before this period he had had the
happiness of connecting himself in marriage with Mary Ann , the eldest daughter of Jonathan Eade , Esq ., of Stoke Newington , the proprietor of the mansion in that village which was long the seat of the
Abneys , and which is still an object of curiosity as the residence , for * many ^ esr $ , of the learned and pious Dr . Watts .- ^ -i > n Pett's first settlement in his professional character was at Plymouth , in Whfch place and the neighbourhood he was well known and much esteemed . His success
was quite equal to his expedationSj and would have been probably such as tp attach him to this place for life , had not the party-spirit excited by tHIe w ^ r of the French Revolution led him to IfegJ that the metropolis , or Its vicinity ^ y ^ J a much more congenial situation for a
Protestant Dissenter and a friend of freedom . He removed in 1796 , and toojc up his abode at Clapton * Unambitious in his sentiments and retired in his habjts , he contented himself at first with the life of a private gentleman , and would ,, in all probability , have continued m
retirement , had he not been overruled 1 > y the importunities of friends to resume his profession . Some medical practitioners of the first eminence , amongkt wliom were the late Drsf Pitcakn and Saundera , strongly urged him UV fix in the lia ^ ropolis . To this he obieet&L on the ground
of health , and , it may be , from feeling himself unequal to rite anxiety and effort required to a successful Ecmdon practice ^ He \ va& , besides , increasingly T > ouhd'' ' fd Hackney by several valuable '' ndjljmn | wx ^ nd mw Ifccordin ^ ly , in AmfW ^ P the wishes of many , he agalW tp ^ wMs professidnal character , in the ^ &r ^ fW 4 ; attd the event proved tha ^ h ^ Wff ^ ion w 4 s wisely formed , for his pr ^ ctfee soon
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1823, page 109, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1781/page/45/
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