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recommended to them by Mr . Planta , Mr . Majendie and Mr . Woide , who undertook the charge of instructing the students in the modern languages , and also gave Lectures on Natural History .
During his residence here , he pub * lished a Syllabus of Lectures on Mineralogy , which the present v / riter has heard well spoken of . But still the void occasioned by the loss of Dr . Priestley was by no means filled up , and a fourth professorship was out of the
question . Dr . Aikin , therefore , was obliged to take the higher Greek and Latin classes , Mr . Forster , the junior ones , and Mr . Seddon , whose warm interest in the prosperity of the institution never deserted him , engaged to give Lectures on Grammar , Oratory , and History .
As this is the first occasion of his being connected with the Academy as a tutor , and as it pleased the Divine Providence that this connection should continue for
little more than two years , the present seems the proper place for introducing any particulars which have fteen collected concerning him since the publication of the
total want of economy rendered it impossible for the Trustees to keep him long ; after which he tried various projects till his appointment to accompany Capt . Cooke ( on his second voyage ; previous to which the University of Oxford made him LL . D ) . His quarrels
with the other literary men engaged for that voyage , are detailed in his and his son George ' s controversy with Mr . Wales , &c , ; he returned to Germany , was made Professor of Natural History
at Halle ; and , after losing his son , died of chagrin and disappointment , in 179 S , aged 69 . Several of his works , particularly his " Observations on Natural History made in his Voyage /* are of * cry considerable value *
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account of students educated by Dr . Rotheram , in your Reposi ^ tory , Vol . V . p . 428 , 9 . Mr . Seddon was the son of the Rev . John Seddon ( probably No * 182 in the list of students in Mr .
Frankland ' s Academy , which he entered in 1691 ) , who was first minister at Ormskirk , in Lancashire ( where the subject of our memoir is supposed to have been
born , and where he had some relations ) ; he afterwards removed to the city of Hereford ; where , probably , be continued till his death . The son , as we have seen , had his education for the minis .
try at Kendal and Glasgow ; and , after he settled at Warrington , was unweariedly active in stirring up the opulent Dissenters at
Manchester and Liverpool , to institute a plan of liberal education , till he was at length successful , as has been already related ( p . 2 ) . From its first establishment to his
death he officiated as Secretary to the Trustees , and also as Recr > tor Academite . In his former capacity he kept the minutes and accounts of the academy with great attention , carefully copying into them the several letters which
he wrote to different gentlemen on the business of it ( it would have thrown great light upon many of the transactions connected with it , if he had also inserted the let * ters which he received ) . In these and in the minutes , one . sees his
character very accurately drawn by himself ; indefetigably active , warm-hearted , earnest , perfectly disinterested , not very patient of
contradiction on subjects conHetoJ ted with this his favourite child , a little too fond of shew and parade , somewhat too meddling , and per * haps occasionally assuming , in-
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Historical Account of the Watrington Academy . 289
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 289, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/5/
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