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    Mr . Bernard Fry . January 28 th , at Stafford , in the 41 st year of his age , Mr . Bernard Fry , surgeon . He was the youngest son of a Dissenting minister , [ the Rev . Mr . Fry , now of Kidderminster , ] and was a native of Billericay , in Essex , where his

    father , at the time of his birth , and many years after , resided . From his earliest years he was highly promising , and through all his growth to adult age , being amiable , virtuous , and endowed with a good capacity , he gave full satisfaction to those with whom he was

    connected , and the greatest delight to his friends and dearest relatives . After he had passed through the regular course of medical and surgical education , and obtained the visual testimonials , he was in several situations as an assistant surgeon , in which he gained more information and experience , and practically improved his professional qualifications .

    He succeeded to the practice , at Stafford , of his truly worthy elder brother David , who died of a consumption , much lamented , March 10 , 1814 , having , about six months before that mournful event , for the purpose of assisting him in his increasing illness , relinquished the intention of settling with a favourable prospect in a neighbouring county town .

    In consequence of a severe cold , which he took in August last , attended with a violent cough , he had the affliction of a ruptured artery in his luugs , which reduced his frame , not naturally robust , to great debility , and for some weeks endangered his valuable life , by threatening to terminate in an incurable decline ; but from this disaster , which he bore

    with the most placid patience and devout resignation , he happily recovered ; and at the commencement of the present year his health and vigour were completely re-established . About this period a typhus fever , of a very nialiguant kind , was introduced into the parish poorhouse by a diseased vagrant , who was incautiously sent there ; and before

    many days had elapsed , fifteen of the inmates were at the same time suffering under this dreadful malady , whom Mr . Fry , as the parish surgeon , constantly attended . By his assiduity and skill he had , nearly subdued this virulent distemper , which had proved fatal to four persons ; and , as he expressed , in a letter written about the middle of Jar

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    uuary , he was in hope of effectually removing it in a short time , when he took the baneful contagion himself , which soon rendered him incapable of following his practice , and in less than a week after this , notwithstanding the skilful and unwearied endeavours of his friend Dr . Somerville to save him , he fell a sacrifice to his humane exertions .

    His religious views were Unitarian , which he never shunned openly to avow , and , on proper occasions , to maintain with becoming zeal ; and as Trinitarian worship was to him extremely objectionable , as being , in his opinion , contrary to the Divine requirement , he much lamented his being so situated as to have no opportunity , when his avocations would permit , for joining in that social devotion which alone appeared to him consistent with the oracles of God .

    He was desirous of having the old Presbyterian meeting - house in Stafford , which had been shut up for many years , reopened for divine service agreeably to the doctrine , that the God and Father of Jesus Christ is the ouly right object of adoration ; and several times he took steps for this purpose ; but , having no coadjutors there , he could not surmount the difficulties and accomplish his wish . That the sentiments he entertained

    resulted from serious consideration and a calm investigation of the Holy Scriptures , or at least that they became established in his mind by these means , may be justly iuferred from the judicious observations on various scriptural passages , aud other written remarks on doctrinal topics , which are among his papers ; and these writings evince his high estimation of what he believed to be the truths

    of the gospel , and how much his views of them interested his mind , because , his medical practice being very extensive , it must have been difficult for him to spare time for this employment from his numerous professional engagements . What ; is more important is , that his heart and life were as uniformly as

    human frailty will admit , under the beneficial influence of his religious principles . His pious reverence of the one supreme Being , sincere gratitude for the revelation of hia free mercy and grace by the Mediator Jesus Christ , and his firm belief of a resurrection to immortality , were productive of good fruits . The strictest integrity and conscientious up ?

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1827, page 445, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1797/page/53/