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    53 . James ^ ooi > . r Sou of the ltev . James Wood ,, of Chew bent , of-facetions and he * roic memory : a particular account of . whose active zeal for the present royal family , diiring the rebellion of V $ I 5 which obtained for hint ever after t « e nanie oi in

    General Wood , is ^ giTen Mr . Henry Toxilmiji ' s Life of Mr . JohtiJMort , and in Dr . Priestley ' s Familiar Letters to the Inhabitants of Birmingham . Whither his son removed on Dr .

    Rotheram ' s death , the writer does not know ; , but he believes he afterwards settled at Chewbent , and died there young . 1749 , 54 . George Walker .

    Of this excellent person it would have gratified the writer to have presented a memoir at some more considerable length , if this

    had not been already done by Dr . Aikin ., in the Athenaeumr vol . i . p . 638 , and by his own son in the Introduction to his Essays ; which though nfot without inaccuracies ^ present ^ , ou the whole ^ a faithful sketch of his character and

    conduet through the various scenes of a chequered ' anductWe life . Mr . George Walker w ^ s born &t Newcnstle . upon-Type ^ jbo ^ it fhe year 1735 , and at the age of ten years was placed unc ^ r the immediate

    superintendence of his ; unde , Mr . Thomas Walker , thpi ^ an erpijaent dissenting minister at J > u rh vam , who , probably observiijgsoiin ^ wJ ^ t extraordinary in the earjj talfents ° f his nephew , was desirotis of

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    encouraging him to devote himself to ttiat brofession , of which he ^ vas ^ himself ^ o . . ereat an oro £ trn ^ nt . ^ e hja d tnfe go <> d fbrtlitie to receive His Wammar learning at the public ^ grammar sclrool of Durham , then ' uTicter tKe

    direction of a vefy ' aule master ^ Mr . bongwortii . Her ^ he st ^ d till he was near fift ' eefi , ^ atnd f Ken removed to Kendat , ih the autuniti of 1749 ; but 6 n the decline of Dr . Rotheram' ^ hcaTth , he'fetufned home in 1751 , arid , until the commencement of the session at

    Edinburgh , in the November of that year , he attended the Rev . Hugh MoiseSj-jVI , A . then just settled * at Newcastle , as master of the head-scTibol of that place ; which office he ' held , with the

    utmost reputation and success , for 37 yeans . Mr . Moises has often mentioned to the writer oi these notes , the pleasure and surprise he used t 6 ' feel at the elegance ' ahJ . ' stii ritr 4 of" the themes

    and other exei-icifees ^ whfch young Walker at that time produced . After speridihg " one ; session at Edinburgh , \ yhere Ke continued his mathematical studies under the celebrated Stewart ; and two at Glasgow , where he . ^ as the pupil of Simson , $ mjt ; h and Leechrrian j and the fellow student of Clayton , Cap-pel ' ami B ' lilVar , he returned , to England m 17 , 54 . and , shortly afterward * commenced preacher ; > ut did not settle ^ as a minister ^ ^ till tp 5 f y ptf ^ jig m ^ anw ^ under tfie literal Erection of his - '¦ • • ¦ ' ¦ « - k < - i ' . h 4 ¦ . ¦ . ! .: ' ¦ j . . ' ' / ' * . ' ' - ' -1 ¦ i y 7

    * Fropa tbis [ circumstance ( ascertained / By ^ Birarid , vol . 1 . p . 9 * 6 , hy W&ose ^ ktt ^ ctsi jfrpm tiEie Corp ^ tion Boi ) ks , - it apjpe ^ rs that Ba ^ ife ^ tbt a 6 th 6 ^ 6 ) f &fTsc . Cnt . did i ! 6 t f esigtt till Sept . aj , 1749 , and Moiies , ^ ho , by the * Vayj wasiiever ^ J ^ ctor ' wa « riot appointed jtiil Jai | . 15 , 1750 ); it ^ eyia ^ P ^ rib ^ f It ^ jidc ^ gfc M ^ - ^ wr ' s having befca uader Mr * Aloises' car ^ in hk early youtb mvst be a V " 3 ShJ £ C ' ' ¦ 1 ' ' ... ¦ w - ¦ 1 -

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    List of Dr * Rotherani ^ s Pupils . 475

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1810, page 475, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2409/page/3/