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rt » qtmed tftt histinttg ftoid to receifae with * cbtnplatfency , arid which his successor Certainly never wouldHaw bottle . —He left a
curious mat h . e radical wilf , which excited much remark , and occasioned some perplexity , by which he bequeathed his property to his relations , in proportions ,
regulated by tbeit respective degrees of proftimitjr , without mentioning a single name , etfen that of his wife , ' wh& was s&ppdsed to have contributed her fulf share towards
saving tvbat he hstd to feave , and who survived him a gocid many years cm a trifling income . Mr . Holt was succeeded by the ftev . George Walker , F . R . S . of whom so full a biographical acco * iiut bag besti prefixed by his Son , I © his Posthumous Sermons
and Miscellaneous Works , and so many tributes of respect to his memory have been inserted in the Monthly l % e ^ o < £ toi * y , ( vol . ii . p . VtT , ^ Hitditol . v . pp . % l ? y 475 , 50 $ $ ) th ^ t nothing further occurs to be adied oil the ( present occa * sion , Wim situation eould not fail to eto
be pattteijlarl ^ agreeabl , a man , VS ^ ho vir&styofc only of distinguished ^ mio ^ nGe in his own particular department , but also of great attaiiiirteiHsiti v&Tious walks of generai lit ^ r atqi : ^ , an 4 almost unrivalled in &s tajbeat % ad laste for literary
cohversatiom The ^ inOl'bm ^ nts , hcrwever arising frotn the fees of his clas ^ , were ^ fa ^ from answering eilfeer tas wpLeetations or his wants ; and , nothing hemg ' to b $ expected ftom the funds of the Ac ^ tteflay , a re ^ movftl from his present » Uu » tfa > ft 9
V > tet $ to ! a man lately rrt « Vfi ^ d , with the prospect df art increasing % ipil > , a measure n >> r of iocliq ^ W » N ^^ # ci «| t «» Hjtr acoeateri
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an invitation to Nottingham , in the summer of 1774 * After several ineffectual attempts to supply Mr . Walker ' s place , the funds being quite unequal to thd offering of an adequate salary to &
successor , Dr . Enfield , as ha $ been stated , undertook the herculean task qf qualifying himself , in a single vacation , under the direction of his friend Dr . Clayton , of Liverpool , to add to his former , already arduous , department , that of tutor in the inathematics and
natural philosophy ; Dr . Aikin relieving him from the logic and higher classics . And in consequence of Mr . Rigby ' s about thd same time declining his situation as provider of the commons , Dr . Enfield added this also to his
other cares , with little expectation of profit , at the rate of 17 / . the session often months . About this time a very pleasing addition was made to the opportunity of general information enjoyed in this institution , by th&
voluntary undertaking of Mr . ( now Dr . ) Aikin , then a young surgeofe lately settled in Warrington , to give , at his own risk , to those who chose to attend him , short courses of lectures oil arfatomy and physiology , d , nd on chemistry ; designed to introduce into these studies
those young gentlemen whose profession would require a further attention to them , and to give sucU a general knowledge of them to others a& belongs to a Coursie o * f Hber&f education . Something of
this kinid had been occ ^ sronietfW attempted before ; Dt ; ttiekmt , who touftf turn hi ^ fakttlt % ^ Any thing , infbrnffl us' iri hi ^ lVfeftioirs , ( p . 43 , ) that ^* M # 1 fe $ gave a course of lectures tcrii ^ na ^
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Htstvritht Afttiiirii bf the Wurrington Academy . 577
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 577, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/17/
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