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from the benevolence of bis character , and from a connexion subsisting for such a Jong period , that his funeral was attended by more than 300 members of his congregation , anxious to pay the last tribute of respect to one they so much loved . An able and impressive address was delivered at the interment
by his colleague , the Rev . H . Acton , who , on the Suuday following , preached the funeral sermon , which was admirably suited to the occasion , aud the latter part of which was rendered particularly interesting to the audience from a brief memoir of their departed friend . It is hoped , by those to whom he was personally known , that both the Funeral Address and Sermon will be published .
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MEMOIR OF DR . HAMILTON , LATE OF IPSWICH . Robert Hamilton , M . D ., of the Royal College of Physicians , London , Member of the Medical and Physical Societies of Edinburgh , and of the Medical Society of London , was a native of the parish of Balleywillen , in the county of Antrim , in Ireland . He was born , about the year 1752 , of parents highly respectable , but in an humble rank of life ( his father being a weaver ) .
Mr . Hamilton received the rudiments of his education at a small school near his native village , and from his earliest years evinced a great love of knowledge and an earnest desire for information . With a mind ever bent on improvement , with a constitution unfit for laborious exertion , and , at the same
time , with a conviction of his father ' s inability to render him pecuniary assistance , he applied closely to the study of the Latin language , and those branches of useful knowledge , the attainment of which might tit him for the situation of a domestic tutor or a village schoolmaster .
The neighbouring parish of Dunluce being without a schoolmaster at this time , Mr . Hamilton was fixed upon as a proper person to fulfil the duties of the office . Accordingly , Mr . Cameron , the Presbyterian minister of the place , gave him an invitation to his house , which , for some years , he considered as his home . The advantages arising from the society of a man of Mr . Cameron ' s liberal views and cultivated understanding , *
See an interesting publication entitled , " The Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures concerning the only true God , " &c . 1828 , aud Monthly Repos ., &c . [ N . S . l , Vol . II . 781 . f
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were not lost upon a mind thirsting for knowledge and devoted to science . Often , in the latter part of his life , would he refer with delight to the period when , assisted in the pursuit of knowledge by his friend Mr . C , they amused themselves , for hours , with anatomical
investigations , and examined the beauty , order , and skill displayed in the structure of the animal frame . By such pursuits as these he whs led to the study of medicine , and thus cultivated a taste for that profession , which determined his future lot , and secured to him high respectability , to the end of a useful and valuable life .
About this time Mr . Hamilton entered into an engagement with an apothecary of Coleraine , to attend in his shop every market day : this engagement he regularly observed , though ai the distance of some miles . In the course of his attendance . at Coleraine , his industry , intelligence , and amiable manners , procured for him the favour
and attention of some of the most respectable inhabitants . It was not long before Dr . Smith , a man of education and fortune , testified the high opinion he had of his talents aud character by taking him into his house as tutor to his sous . Here he possessed another opportunity for self-improvement ; and he did not fail to embrace it . He
continued in this situation for some time , until Dr . S ., seeing Mr ; Hamilton ' s anxious desire for further advancement , and , being highly satisfied with his conduct while under his roof , generously presented him with a sum of money , the joint contribution of himself and a few friends . With this money and high recommendatious , Mr . H . weut to
Edinburgh , where , by strict ecouomy , and by giving lessons as a private tutor , he lived respectably , gained the esteem and approbation of the professors , the respect of all who were acquainted with him , and the accomplishment of his wishes . Having obtained his diploma , he was appointed surgeon to a regiment travelling through different parts of England . After remaining some time at Ipswich , the regiment was ordered to
proceed to the continent ( England being at that time at war with France ) . But Dr . Hamilton , having gained the esteem and confidence of many highly respectable families in that town , was requested to remain amongst them as their physician . He complied with their solicitations , gave up his situation in the army , aud , by assiduous attention ^ to the duties of his profession , had every
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720 Obituary , — Memoir of Dr . Hamilton .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1831, page 720, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2602/page/68/
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