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    t activity , prudence and the exercise of uLment . By a regular distribution of her own time , she was enabled to conduct the arrangements of her numerous family with perfect regularity , without enc roaching on the bou * s dedicated to lk ious duty and mental improvement , at hour

    The habit of rising a very early , / a practice which she cautinued ^ to the close of life , ) enabled her to devote two hours of every morning to useful reading and pious occupations . To the poor and distressed she was a most humane , generous and compassionate benefactress ; ever ready not only to relieve , but to visitto console and to advise . * In her - ^ -- — —

    , VIulU ** VF *^ ^^ general intercourse , her manners were distinguished for frankness and candour ; for mild forbearance and charitable allowance ; for kind hospitality , winning cheerfulness and courteous attention . In her religious tenets , she was a decided Unitarian , from deep and immoveable con * viction founded on the word of God :

    and if our Saviour ' s rule be a just criterion by which we may judge of the truth of any system , surely that system must be well founded which produced such excellent fruits in the life and conduct of this faithful servant of Christ .

    The inheritor of her father s virtues , she has , like him , bequeathed to her posterity an example which holds out to them all a benign and steady light to cheer them through the vicissitudes of their earthly journey , and to guide them to the practice of that religion which was her joy and support through life , and her steadfast trust and consolation at the awful hour of dissolution .

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    which he had been educated , yet nothing was waiting on his part to maintain a cordial intercourse with those with whom

    his views were once assimilated , and scarcely any thing drew from him severer animadver&ion thau when it happened that he heard what he considered au unfair representation of their principles .

    As a physician , he was seldom introduced to the chamber of disease without also becoming a sympathising friend ; and in his neighbourhood , or with mankind at large , be was remarkably distinguished by courtesy and urbanity of

    manners . His conversation was not only instructive , but highly entertaining ; his anecdotes , of which he possessed a considerable fund , lost none of their effect from a want of point and emphasis , although in the last years of his life his voice was so much enfeebled . The

    direct as well as indirect tributes of respect which are paid to his memory are felt by his family to contain no flattery , for they who saw him in his daily walk of life knew how exemplary he was as a husband , a father , and a master . In 1822 , the conjugal tie was broken which had united him for fifty years with one whom he described as " the most valuable

    treasure he ever possessed on earth . " A few weeks after this affecting bereavement , his children were alarmed with the apprehension that he would speedily follow their beloved mother . But although he was then spared to them , and for farther usefulness , his health received a blow from which it never recovered .

    Still , however , his professional duties were continued and did not cease until the spring of the present year , when also his connexion with the City of London Lying-in-Hospital closed . This valuable institution , for more than thirty years , he had watched over with paternal care . At that time he resolved to

    try the mild atmosphere of Clifton , and accordingly quitted Hainpstead on the 1 st of May , leaving his valued friends at that place and in the neighbourhood of London with no small regret . His bereaved children now look back with

    heart-felt satisfaction ou the enjoyment he experienced at Clifton during the suinmer months from the beneficial influence of the air , the contemplation of the fine scenery , and a renewed intercourse with friends who had been his iotiinate associates during his former

    residence in the neighbourhood . Here , qJso , it C 0 uuot be doubted but lie had recollections of the most interesting kind , for 1 % was at Bristol that the first ye&rs of his happy married life were spent ., and tUevq jus pa ^ n t ^ i affections wcie fu ' iit awakemo < J . Suuh wa& t \\ e isu-

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    Obituary .- ^ -Sdyer Walker * M . D . 761

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    November 9 , in the 77 th year of his age , at Clifton , Sayer Walker , M . D . His parents were Dissenters of the Independent denomination , and he was educated for the ministry at a public institution in that connexion . His first

    settlement as a minister was with the Congregation assembling at Castle Green , Bristol , after which he was established at Eufield , in Middlesex , where lie remained until the year 1792 . At this Period that original weakness of voice

    " »* cn naa occasioually interrupted ms ministerial duties had so much increased as to incapacitate him for public speaking . The study of medicine having always » een a favourite pursuit with him , and "Mich of his time and attention hayinK 1 ¦* ¦ ¦• * - * V ^^ V V Vvi 4 UA * mm . « . m- ^ » ^ -. » 7 ^\

    ^ een devoted to it > he was quite prepared 0 enter immediately into that prpf « esr Sl which he exercised in the metropolis with little interruption uutil withiu *^ unmths of his decease . Althoug h in after lite his -theological mions greatly deviated from- thow in

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 761, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/61/