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Biographical Sketches of some of his Contemporaries 9 by Mr John Foot: with an Original Letter from Mr. (afterwards Archbishop) Seeker.
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Dr . JOHN HUXHAM . HE was born in Totnes , of very honest but obscure parents . His father was a Disseuter in principle , and a butcher by trade , and a very careful man . He had a small estate in the parish of Staverton , which he left to this his eldest son , which was
disposed of when he came of age , in order to defray the charges of his education . The Doctor was young when his father died , who left him to the sole care of Mr . Thonras Edgley , a
Dissenting Minister in Totnes , who was empowered to bring him up to any profession that he inclined to , or was fit for . It soon appeared that he was capable of letters , and therefore Mr . Edgley placed him to a grammar school . The most of his time in this
way was spent with Mr . Gilling , of Newton , where he acquired a very good knowledge in the classics , and it was discovered that he had a great memory , though assisted by very little diligence or application . From Mr .
( jrilling ' s he came to Mr . Hallett's Academy in Exeter- I had been there a year before , and staid two years afterwards , and by that means became thoroughly acquainted with him . He was always esteemed to have very good
parts , and to perform his exercises well ; but , at the same time , careless , somewhat deceitful in some things , but very honest in making no pretensions to religion . While I staid he behaved decently , and having finished his courses he was sent to Leyden to study physic under the learned Boerhaave . He did
not remain there more than one year and a half , his circumstances not admitting any further expense ; but it appeared that by his great application , added to his abilities , he had got more in that small time , than some would
or could have done in thrice the time . * short , he studied hard , read a great < leal , and made the best of his advantages ; and after he had gone through ail the lectures , he went to Rheims , in France , to take his degree , because
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that could be had much cheaper there than at Leyden * Thus furnished , he returned to Totnes , Waiting for a place of settlement to try his fortune . He did not wait long , for one Dr . *** a
thick-head physician of this town , dying , Edgley thought it was an opening for him , and accordingly brought him directly for Plymouth . I remember I came home one evening , and found the parlour full of company ,
and at my entrance was accosted , to my very great surprise , in the grand French air , and with the minuet step , by my old friend and acquaintance Mr . Huxham , who , with a very profound reverence - told me that he was come
to throw himself at my feet . I was not a little confounded at this unexpected salutation , and began to be under some difficulty of replying to it , but Mr . Edgley stepping forth to speak to me , and' my fattier saying that Mr .
Huxham was come to live with us , I immediatel y understood what he meant , and accordingly bid him welcome and wished Kim success . His coming recommended by Mr . Edgley was sufficient to put him uhder the protection of the Dissenters , who were
immediately his friends . And that he might appear in lodgings suitable to his quality , he was taken to lodge and board with Mr . Mordecai Cockey , who was then one of the best men in Mr . Erity ' s meeting . In this station he continued some time , having as yet little practice ,
for Dr . Seymour had the general run of the town . Business not immediately answering expectation , he began to think of marrying into some family which might have interest to promote it . It happened that Mrs . Ellen Corham was then in town , and not provided for , so he made her an offer , and
she accepted it , and being settled in a house of his own , he began to look bigger , and to affect much more gravity than usual . And here was the beginning of that stiff and affected behaviour for which he hath been so very remarkable . He pretended to believe , that his awkward strut and an
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No . CLXXXIX . ] SEPTEMBER , 1821 . [ Vol . XVI .
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Biographical Sketches Of Some Of His Contemporaries 9 By Mr John Foot: With An Original Letter From Mr. (Afterwards Archbishop) Seeker.
Biographical Sketches of some of his Contemporaries 9 by Mr John Foot : with an Original Letter from Mr . ( afterwards Archbishop ) Seeker .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1821, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2504/page/1/
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