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BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY

OF

LIVING AUTHORS.

ABBOTT, Rt. Hon. CHARLES, D.C.L. tomy to the Corporation of Surgeons of F.R. and A.S., M.P. for the Univer- London; Assistant Surgeon to Bartholo sity of Oxford, Speaker of the House of mew's Hospital, and Teacher of Anatomy Commons, and Keeper of the Privy Seal and Surgery.

the Irish Academy, Operative Chemist. ACCUM, FREDERIC, Hon. Memb. of Besides papers in Nicholson's Journal,

Mr. A. has written:

A System of Chemistry, 2 v. 8vo. 1803.-Essay on the Analysis of Minerals, 12mo, 1804.—Manual of Analytical Mineralogy, 2 v. 12mo. 1803.—Elements of Crystallography, 8vo. 1813.

ACKLAND, THOMAS GILBANK, A.B. of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Assistant Master of the Charter-house School.

in Ireland; also, in his official capacity, Surgical and Physiological Essays, in 4 parts, 8vo. one of the Trustees of the Brit. Mi-1793-1797.-The same work, new edit. under the title of Surgical Observations, 2 v. 8vo. 1801-1810. seum, a Member of the Privy Council, &c. born in Devonshire about 1755, educated at Westminster School and Christchurch Coll., Oxford. Adopting the profession of the Law, he was called to the bar, and attained considerable eminence as a Chancery Pleader. In 1790 and 1796, he was elected M. P. for Helstone; in 1802 for Woodstock; since 1806 he has represented the University of Oxford, and from 1802 has been Speaker of the House of Commons. He was formerly Recorder of Oxford, and Lieutenant Colonel of the North Pevensey Legion of Volunteer Cavalry. In 1797 he married Elizabeth elder daughter of Sir Philip Gibbes, Bart. Rules and Orders on the Plea Side of the Court of King's Bench, from Easter Term 1731 to Trin. Term, 1795, 8vo. 1795.-Jurisdiction and Practice of the Court of Great Sessions of Wales, on the Chester Circuit, royal 8vo. 1795.-Treatise of the Law rela. tive to Merchant Ships and Seamen, 8vo. 1802. 3rd. edit. 1808.

ABBOTT, CHARLES, D.D. F.L.S. Vicar of Oakley Raynes, Bedfordshire.

Flora Bedfordiensis: comprehending such Plants as grow wild in the County of Bedford, 8vo. 1798.Parochial Divinity, or Sermons on Various Subjects,

8vo, 1207.

ABDY, Rev. WILLIAM JARVIS, A.M.
Rector of St. John's, Southwark, and
Evening Lecturer of St. Mary le Bow,
Cheapside.

The British Christian's Duty to make Prayers and
Supplications for the King, a Sermon, 8vo. 1812.
ABERNETHY, JOHN, Esq. F.R.S. Hon.
Memb. of the Roy. Med. Soc. of
Edinb., and of the Med. Societies of
Paris, Philadelphia, &c. Prof. of Ana
Lit. Cal.

Miscellaneous Poems, 8vo. 1812.-A Sermon preached at Christ Church, Surrey, 4to. 1813.

ACTON, THOMAS HARMAN, Esq. of the Middle Temple.

Reports of Cases before the Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes, in May, June, and July, v. 1. p. 1. and 2, royal 8vo. 1809.

ADAIR, JAMES MACKITTRICK, M.D. one of the Judges of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas in the Island of Antigua, and subsequently of the Leeward Islands.

Medical Cautions for the Consideration of Invalids, 8vo. 1786, 2nd edit. 1787.-A Philosophical and Medi

cal Sketch of the Natural History of the Human Body against the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 8vo. 1789.and Mind, 8vo. 1787.-Unanswerable Objections Essays on Fashionable Diseases, 8vo. 1790.—Essay 1790.-Anecdotes of the Life, Adventures and Vin dication of a Medical Character, metaphorically De

on a Non-descript or Newly-invented Disease, 8vo.

funct, By Benjamin Goosequil! and Peter Paragraph, 8vo. 1790. (These Anecdotes reiate to the Author himself. Enquiry into the Truth of certain Charges

of the Dangerous Consequences of the Suttonian or cooling Regimen, under Inoculation for the Smallcontained in the Memoirs of Philip Thicknesse, Esq. by Benjamin Goosequill and Peter Paragraph, 8vo,

Pox, 8vo. 1790.-Curious Facts and Anecdotes not

A

1790.-Two Sermons, the first addressed to Seamen, able Beast-houses and Sheep-cots. He has the second to British West India Slaves, 8vo. 1791. endeavoured to explain the advantages of

-An Essay on Diet and Regimen, 8vo. 1799, 2d ed. 3813.

this invention in

8vo. 1810.

ADAIR, ROBERT, Esq. son of the late A New System of Agriculture and Feeding Stock, Surgeon-General to the Army, by a Ademe, Joux, LL.D. one of the most daughter of William, second Earl of Al- active founders of the independence of bemarle, was bred to the bar but never the United States of America, was bred practised. He was first elected M.P. to the Law. At an early period of the for Appleby, and in 1802, 6 and 7, was returned for Camelford. In 1789, during the preparations for war with Russia, he visited that country; and in 1806 went as Ambassador Extraordinary to the Court of Vienna. He was afterwards in the same capacity at Constantinople. A Whig's Apology for his Consistency (anonym.) occasioned by Mr. Burke's mention of Lord Keppel in a recent Publication, 8vo. 1796-The Letter of the Right Hon. C. J. Fox to the Electors of West minster, Jan. 1793, with an Application of its Principles to subsequent Events, 8vo. 1802.

8vo.... Part of a Letters to the Right flon. C. J. Fox,

ADAM, Rev. ROBERT, B.A. Minister of the Episcopal Corregation, Blackfriars Wynd, Edinb., a Chaplain to the Earl

of Kellie.

The Religious World Displayed; or a View of the
Four Grand Systems, Judaism, Paganism, Chris-

tianity and Mabommedanism, 3 v. 8vo. 1899.

ADAM, WILLIAM, Esq. Chancellor, Keeper of the Great Seal and Counsellor of State to the Prince Regent in Scotland, Lord Lieutenant of Kinrossshire, a King's Counsel, and Counsel to the E. Ind. Company; scn of an Architect of Leith. He was bred to the bar and early obained a seat in Parliament, being one of the minority on the expulsion of Mr. Wilkes. Having afterwards attached himself to the party of Lord North, he took offence at some expressions used by the late Mr. Fox in the House: and a duel ensued in which he wounded his antagonist. For some years before 1807, Mr. Adam was not in Parliament; he was then elected for Kincardineshire, but at present has

seat.

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Speech in the H. of C. March 10, 1794, on moving an Address to the King in behalf of Tho. Muir, Esq. and the Rev. Tho. Fyshe Palmer, 8vo. 1794-The Correspondence between Mr. Adam and Mr. Bowles respecting the Attack of the latter on the Character of the late Duke of Bedford, 4to. 1803.-Speech in

the H. of C. 24th June, 1808, on the Scotch Judica ture Bill, 8vo. 1808.-Speech in the H. of C. on the Question of Privilege, in the Case of Sir F. Burdett, 8vo. 1810.

ADAMS, FRANCIS, Esq. a Justice of the Peace and Dep. Lieutenant for the County of Somerset.

A Plan for raising the Taxes, 8vo. 1798.

ADAMS, GEORGE. This gentleman has taken out a patent for what he calls Port

war between those states and the mo-
ther country, he was appointed Ambas-
sador to the Court of Versailles, and af-
terwards sent as Minister Plenipotentiary
to Holland, where he exerted himself
with such effect as to draw that republic
into the alliance against Britain. After
the establishment of American independ-
ence, Dr. A. was deputed Ambassador
to several of the European powers. In
1789, when General Washington was
elected President of the new republic,
Dr. A. was chosen Vice President, and
on the resignation of the former in 1796,
he was advanced to the office of Chief
Magistrate, which he held till 1800.
Besides two Pamphlets, the one on Canon
and Feudal Law, and the other of a po-
litical tendency, Dr. Adams is known in
Europe as the author of
A Defence of the Constitution of Government of the
United States of America, 3 v. 8vo. 1787-8, a new
edition of which was published with the title of:-
History of the Principal Republics in the World, 3 ▼
8vo. 1794.

ADAMS, John, Riding Master.
Analysis of Horsemanship, 3 v. 8vo. 1801.

ADAMS, JOHN, Esq. of Waltham
A Voyage to South America, from the Spanish of
Abbey.
Ulloa, 2 v. 8vo. 1806.

ADAMS, JOHN, of the Middle Temple.
Treatise on the Action of Ejectment, 8vo. 1812.

ADAMS, JOHN, Master of the Free
School at Edmonton, Middlesex.
The Young Lady's and Gentleman's Atlas, 8vo.

1805.

ADAMS, JOHN QUINCEY, Esq. late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of Berlin; eldest son of John A. Esq. formerly President of the United States. Letters on Silesia, written during a Tour in that country in 1800 and 1801, 8vo. 1804.

ADAMS, JOSEPH, M.D. F.L.S. Member of the Roy. Coll. of Physicians, Physician to the Small Pox and Inoculation Hospitals, and to the New Finsbury Dispensary. He resided for some years in Madeira. Dr. A. holds two courses of Lectures annually on the Institutes and Practice of Medicine at his house in Hatton Garden. He has published Ob servations on Cancerous Breasts.

Observations on Morbid Poisons, 8vo. 1795. 2nd ed. 4to. 1806.-Account of the Climate of Madeira, with Instructions to those who resort thither for the Re

covery of their Health, 8vo. 1201.-Observations on

the Cancerous Breast, 8vo. 1801.-Answers to all the Objections hitherto made against the Cow Pox, 8vo. 1805.-Popular View of Vaccine Inoculation, cr. 8vo. 1807-An Inquiry into the Laws of Epidemics, Evo. 1810.-Reports from the Roy. Colleges of the United Kingdom in favor of Vaccination, 1811.Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the Institutes and Practice of Medicine, 8vo. 1811.-Hunter's Treatise on the Venereal Disease, with Commentaries,

14th edit. 1812.

ADAMS, Q.

ADAMS, T. of Shaftesbury, Bookseller. A History of the Town of Shaftesbury, 8vo. 1809. ADAMS, WILLIAM.

Thoughts on the Anti-monarchical tendency of the measures of the English Minister, 8vo. 1796.-The Republican Minister, or Thoughts tending to disclose the real motives of Mr. Pitt in the prosecution of the War with the Republic of France, 8vo. 1797.

ADAMS, WILLIAM, Memb. of the Roy. Coll. of Surgeons, London; Oculist Extraordinary to the Prince Regent, and in ordinary to the Dukes of Kent and Sussex, and late Oculist of the West of England Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye, Exeter.

early period of life in an official situation to the island of St. Christopher; where he resided but a year. In 1790 he was admitted an attorney and solicitor; a profession which he has since relinquished for the bar. In 1793 he married Miss Leycester, of White Place, Berks. He assisted the Rev. Mr. Coxe in preparing his Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole for the press; and besides several anonymous publications, is the author of the following:

Biographical Memoirs of the French Revolution, 2 v. 8vo. 1799.-The British Cabinet, containing Portraits of Illustrious Personages, with Biographiical Memoirs, 2 v. 4to. 1799. 2d edit. 1805-The History of England from the Accession of George III. to the Peace of 1733, 3 v. 8vo. 1802.-History of France from 1790 to the Peace of 1802, 2 v. 8vo. 1803.

ADY, JOHN.

The Harmony of the Divine Will, and the Heavenly Doctrines of the Old and New Testament illustrated, 8vo. 1811.

Aco, JouN, forherly a Linen Draper
in the Strand, recently confined in the
King's Bench Prison for a libel on Tho.
Best, Esq.

The Dawn of Liberty on the Continent of Europe,
8vo. 1808.---Mac Dermot, nov. 3 v. 1810-The Royal
Sufferer, or Intrigues of the 18th Century, nov. 3 v.
Romance, 4 v.
12mo. 1810.-Edwy and Elgiva, a
12mo. 1811.-Town Talk, or Living Manners, (a

monthly Publication, begun in 1811,) Evo.-Secret

Memoirs of an Illustrious Princess, nov. 3 v. 12mo.

The Trial of John Peltier, for a Libel against Buonaparte, 8vo. 1803.-Trial of the Rev. R. Bingham,

on a Charge of setting his house on Fire, 8vo. 1811.

AGUTTER, WILLIAM, M. A. Chaplain and Secretary to the Asylum for Female Orphans; educated at Magdalen Coll., Oxford. Besides several single Sermons Sermons on Various Subjects, 8vo. 1808.-Pamplihe has published:

let relative to the late Duke of Bedford, in conjunction with Mr. John Bowles.

ADAMSON, JOHN, of Newcastle upon Tyne. This gentleman resided for some time at Lisbon on commercial business. He is the contributor of an article en- AIKIN, ARTHUR, son of Dr. A. Memtitled Memoranda Lusitanica, or accounts ber of the Geological Society of London. of Portuguese Poets, to the Monthly Journal of a Tour through N. Wales and part Magazine, and is at present engaged upon a Life of the celebrated Camoens, upon a much more extensive scale than any hitherto attempted.

Donna Iguez de Castro, a tragedy from the Portuguese of Nicola Luiz, 12mo. 1808.

ADDINGTON, JOHN, Surgeon.

of Shropshire, 8vo. 1797.-The Natural History of/ the Year; being an enlargement of Dr. Aikin's CaLower Egypt, translated from the French of Denon,

lendar of Nature, 12mo. 1798.-Travels in Upper and

2 v. 4to. or 3 v. 8vo. 1802-Editor of the Annual Review, begun in 1802-(In conjunction with his brother C. R. Aikin) Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Chemistry, 8vo. 1798. and A Dictionary of

Observations on the Inoculation of the Cow Pox, Chemistry and Mineralogy, 2 v. 4to. 1807.-PyriBvo. 1801.

ADDISON

Interesting Anecdotes, &c. 12 v. 8vo. 1796.

tologia; or History of Pyrites, from the German of Henckel, 8vo.....

AIKIN, CHARLES ROGUSON, Memb. of ADKIN, Rev. LANCASTER, M. A. of the Roy. Coll. of Surgeons and Sec. to Bennet College, Cambridge, and Rector the Medical and Chirurgical Soc., Lonof Belaugh, Norfolk. don, son of Dr. A. and brother of the preceding; born about 1774.

The Dependence and Duty of Man; a Sermon preached at Norwich on the Thanksgiving Day, Dec. 5, 1805. 8vo. 1806.

ADOLPHUS, JOHN, Esq. Barrister at Law; born in London. He went at an

A Concise View of all the most important facts that have hitherto appeared respecting the Cow Pox, 8vo. 1800.

AIKIN, EDMUND, Architect, Memb.

of the Geological Soc., brother of the two
preceding. He is the author of some
papers in the Trans. of the Geol. Soc. and
has published,

Designs for Villas, &c. 4to. 1808.-Essay on the
Doric Order of Architecture, fol. 1810.

AIKIN, JOHN, M.D son of the late Dr. A. of Warrington. He originally practised as a surgeon; afterwards settled as a physician at Yarmouth, Norfolk, and has for many years resided at Stoke Newington. Dr. A. is the author of many Essays in the Monthly Magazine, the Athenæum, the Classical Journal, and the Reflector. Of the first he was editor for many years, and also of the second from its commencement to its close.

Observations on the External Use of Preparations of Lead, 8vo. 1771.--Thoughts on Hospitals,

8vo. 1771.-Essays on Song-Writing, with a Collection of English Songs, 8vo. 1772.-Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose, (written in conjunction with his

sister, Mrs. Barbauld,) 8vo. 1773.-Cn. Julii Agri.
colæ Vita, scriptore C. Corn. Tacito, with a Transla-
tion, 8vo. 1774.-Specimen of the Medical Biography
of Gr. Britain, 4to. 1775.-On the Application of
Natural Hist. to Poetry, 8vo. 1777.-Translation
of Tacitus on the Manners of the Germans, with
the Life of Agricola and Notes, 8vo. 1777.-A Ma-
nual of Chemistry, from the French of Baumé, 8vo.
1778.-Thomson's Seasons, with an Essay on the
Plan and Character of the Poem, 8vo. 1778.-Bio-
graphical Memoirs of Medicine in Great Britain,
8vo. 1780.-The Calendar of Nature, 8vo. 1784.-

Lewis's Materia Medica, 3d edit. 4to. 1784, 4th edit.
1791.-Manual of Materia Medica,8vo.1725.-England
Delineated, cr. 8vo. 1788.-Poems, cr. 8vo. 1791.-A
View of the Character and Public Services of the
Jate John Howard, cr. 8vo. 1791-Evenings at
Home, 6 v. 12mo. 1792-1796.-Letters from a
Father to his Son, relative to Literature and the
Conduct of Life, 2 v. cr. 8vo. 1793-1800.-Arm-

strong's Art of Preserving Health, with a Critical
Essay, cr. 8vo. 1795.--Description of the Country
round Manchester, 4to. 1795.-Somerville's Chace,
with a Critical Essay, cr. 8vo. 1796.-The Spleen and
other Poems, by Green, with a Prefatory Essay, cr.
8vo. 1796.-Pope's Essay on Man, with a Critical Es-
say, cr. 8vo. 1796.-Sermons by the late Dr. Enfield,
with Memoirs of the Author, 3 v. 8vo. 1798.—
General Biography, (the early volumes written in
conjunction with the late Dr. Enfield, the latter
with the Rev. Tho. Morgan and Mr. Wm.
Johnston,) v. I. to IX. 4to. 1799-1813.-Select
Eulogies of Members of the French Academy, from
the French of D'Alembert, 2 v. cr. 8vo. 1799.-

Johnson's Poets of Great Britain: Spenser, 6 v. fc.
8vo. 1802. Cowley, 3 v. 1802. Butler, 2 v. 1803.-
Arts of Life, 12mo. 1802.-Woodland Companion,
8vo. 1802.--The Works in Natural History of the
late Rev. Gilbert White, M. A. 2 v. 8vo. 1802.
Zschokke's History of the Invasion of Switzerland
by the French; from the French of Briatte, 8vo.
1803.-Letters on a course of English Poetry, 12mo.
1804.-Geographical Delineations, or a View of the
Natural and Political State of all Parts of the Globe,
2 v. cr. 8vo. 1805,-Memoirs of the Life of Huet,

Latin, with copious Notes, 2 v. 8vo. 1809. Vocal Poetry, or a Select Collection of English Songs, post 8vo. 1810.-Essays, Literary and Miscellaneous, 8vo. 1811.-The Lives of John Selden, Esq. and Archbishop Usher, 8vo. 1811.

AIKIN, LUCY, daughter of Dr. Aikin. The Travels of Rolando round the World, from the French of Jauffret, 4 v. 8vo. 1800.-Selection of Poetry for Children 12mo 1801. 5th ed.-Epistles on the Characters of Women, with Miscellaneous Poems, 4to. 1810.-Juvenile Correspondeuce, 18mo. 1811

Hess's Life of Zwingle, the Swiss Reformer, from the French, 8vo. 1812.

AINSLIE, JOHN.

Tables for Computing the Weight of Hay, Cattle, &c. by Measurement, square 12mo. 1806.-Treatise on Land-surveying, 4to. 1810.—Of the latter, not less than 20,000 copies are said to have been sold since its first publication.

AINSWORTH, JOSEPH.

Observations relative to a proposed Duty on Cot-
ton, 8vo. 1813.

Essays on Fractures and Luxations, 8vo. 1800.
AITKEN, John, M. D.

AITON, WILLIAM TOWNSEND, Principal Gardener to his Majesty at Kew, and son of the late Wm. A. who held the same situation.

Hortus Kewensis, or a Catalogue of Plants, culti vated in the Royal Garden at Kew, by the late Wm. Aiton, enlarged, 5 v. 8vo. 1810-1813.

ALANSON, EDWARD, Surgeon at Liverpool.

Practical Observations upon Amputation and the
After-treatment, 8vo. 1779. 2d edit. enlarged 1783.
ALBIN, J. Bookseller at Newport, Isle
of Wight.

History of the I. of Wight, 8vo. 1795.
ALDER, T.

Arguments to show the Impropriety of considering
Fevers as arising from Contagion, Part I. 4to. 1305.

ALDERSON, JOHN, M. D. born at Norwich, Memb. of the Roy. Med. Soc. of Edinb., and resident Physician at Hull. On the Nature and Origin of the Contagion of Fevers, 8vo. 1788.-Essay on the Rhus Toxicodendron, Pubescent Poison Oak, or Sumach, showing its Efficacy in Paralysis and other Diseases of Extreme Debility, 8vo. 1794.-On the Improvement of Poor Soils, 8vo. 1802. 2d edit. 1807.-Orthographical Exercises, several editions.

ALDINGTON, JOHN, Major in the Army. Essay on the Construction and Advantages of Light Artillery, 1804.

ALDINI, JOHN, nephew of the celebrated Galvani; professor of Experimental Philosophy in the University of Bologna, and Member of the Medical and Galvanic Society of Paris. He visited England in 1803, and during his residence here published:

An Account of the late Improvements in Galvanism, 4to. 1803.

ALEXANDER, DISNEY, Memb. of the Bishop of Avranches, written by himself, from the Roy. Med. Soc., Edinb.

On the Nature and Cure of the Cynanche Trache- Chaplain to Lord Sheffield, born in 1760,

and educated at Trinity Coll., Dublin.
The Widowed Queen; or Elizabeth Dowager of

Answer to Van Oven's Letters on the State of the Edward IV. a Poem, 4to. 1778.-Observations on
Jewish Poor in London, 8vo. 1802.