On this page
-
Text (3)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
soap boiler , ami from this lime he dated his commencement of chemical pursuits . la 1794 he married Miss Twamley , of Dudley . Ruririg the time he lived at Stoke , in consequence of there being no place for Unitarian worship , Mr . Parkes
had a private service in his own house every Sunday * which was attended by many of his friends from the neighbourhood . In 1803 Mr . Parkes came to settle in London as a manufacturing chemist . In 1805 he published the first edition of the Chemical Catechism [ M . Repos . II . 30 ]; in 1809 , the first edition of the Rudh
merits of Chemistry . In 1810 lie was active in forming the Christian Tract Society . In 1813 Mrs . Parkes died quite suddenly , while Mr . P . was on a journey in the North , and a memoir of her written by himself will be found in the Mon . Repos . PX . 68 , 114 ] . In 1815 , Mr . Parkes published his first edition of the Chemical
Essays , in nve volumes , I 2 mo . [ M . Repos . X . 586 \] In 1817 , the Highland Society of Scotland voted Mr . Parkes a piece of plate for his Essay on Kelp and Barilla , which was printed in the transactions of the Society . This year Mr . Parkes was very active *
in conjunction with the late Sir Thomas Bernard , la endeavouring to obtain a repea ] of the Salt duties , and published a small work entitled " Thoughts on the Salt Laws , " and soon after published " A Letter to Farmers on the Use of
Salt hi Agriculture . " He also received % piece of plate from the Horticultural Society of Scotland , for a paper sent to them on the uses of salt in gardening . After so many years of assiduous labour , he had the satisfaction , in 1825 , of seeing his endeavours to benefit his country
crowned with success by the entire repeal of this tax , to accomplish which he began to write twenty years before , and he received with no small degree of pleasure letters from different parts of the country thanking him for his exertions in this useful cause . In 1820 , Mr . Parkes
published a second edition of the Rudiments of Chemistry , and in thia year was actively engaged in the trial of Severn and Co ., in which were examined almost the whole of the leading chemists of the country , In January 1822 , the tenth
edition of the Chemical Catechism was published , and ia 1823 , a new edition of the Chemical Essays , in 2 vols . 8 vo ., aud about the same time an improved edition of the Rudiments . It was very gratifying to Air . Parkes to know that his differe nt ^ works had been translated into the
German , French , Spanish and Russian languages , besides many editions published in America . In Spain and Germany the Chemical Catechism is the standard chenucal work Ui the public schools . He waa constantly engaged ia correcting his
Untitled Article
works , and at the time of hi * death had three new edition * preparing for the press . In June 1825 , Mr . Parkea went to Edinburgh and was there taken UL and attended by the first medical practitioners of that city : his illness , how «*
ever * became so severe and ajarrjung that his son-in-law , Mr . Hodgetts , hastened to him , and , as soon as it was considered prudent , he removed him to London by easy stages . The disease had become too deeply seated by this time to
be eradicated , and his family had the pain of watching him fast sinking away from his sphere of usefulness . He was attended by Dr . Babington , Dr . Farr , Dr . Bright and Sir Astley Cooper ,, . but medical skill was useless and unable to
alleviate his acute and severe sufferings , sufferings which none but those who witnessed could imagine ; but throughout the whole of his illness he was never heard to repine , and expressed the most lively pleasure at receiving the visits of his numerous friends : indeed , the last
sentence he uttered only a few hours before his death , was to thank a friend standing by him for his kindness in coming to see him , and he was constantly talking of the attentions he received . But , alas ! his friends only alleviated for a
time his pain ; his valuable life was not at their disposal ; and after a severe struggle ot eight and forty hours this affectionate parent , valued friend and useful member of society , closed his active life on the 23 rd of December , 1825 .
{ Mr . Parkes contributed several papers to this work : on tbe Indestructibility of Matter , IV . 20 and 711 , and V . 175 ; an extended Obituary account of his father , VI . 431 ; an interesting description of a " Visit to Birstal , Dr . Priestley's Native Place '' XI . 274 , &c , &c . Ed . ]
Untitled Article
1825 . Dec . 28 , at Moretonhampstead , in the 70 th year of his age , Mr . John Treljeaven . There were many qualities in the character of this excellent man which entitled him to peculiar ^ respect , and rendered his death the occasion of no common sorrow . The natural strength of his mind , the soundness of his
judgment , and the strict inflexible integrity which marked his whole conduct * gave him an influence seldom possessed by persons who move in a much higher sphere , and little capable of being understood by those who had not the pri «*
vilege of witnessing it . In no instance , perhaps , has the superiority of moral distinctions to all that rank and greatness and wealth can bestow , been more nuequivocally proved . Believing that those enlarged views of religion , of its
Untitled Article
Ohiluary . ~ S * Parkes ,: B * 4 : *~ Mf . John , treleaven . \ $ k
Untitled Article
vol . xxi . r
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 121, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/57/
-