A sketch of the life of Dr. Duncan Liddel, of Aberdeen / [Anon].

  • Stewart, John.
Date:
1790
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Credit: A sketch of the life of Dr. Duncan Liddel, of Aberdeen / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing already made feveral journeys to Britain during his refidence at Helmlladt, he now determined to retire thither for the remainder of his life 2S. Accordingly in the beginning of this year, he took a final leave of the Academia Julia, and after travelling for fome time thro’ Germany and Italy, he at length fettled in Scotland j~ 2S. Several reafons may have induced him to retire thus early from public life. Cafelius afcribes it in part to the follicitations of his friend Dr John Craig, but chiefly to the unfettled ftate of the univerlity ; for fuch were the troubles in Germany during the former year, that many ftudents un¬ willingly left it, and among others a nephew of Craig’s, under the tuition of Liddel, who on that occafion was fent by him to Padua 27. Cafelius fays farther, that Dr. Liddel went away without the permiflion of the Duke of Brunfwick, and that had he been informed of his intention, he would not probably have allowed fuch a valuable member of his favou¬ rite academy to have left it 23. 1612. Where Dr. LiddelTefided, or how he was employed during thefe few years after his return from Germany, no information can now be obtained, only that he was occafionally at Edinburgh, and pro¬ bably lived chiefly at Aberdeen, among his relations. On the 12th of July in this year he was at Edinburgh, where he fubfcribed his firfl deed of fettlement of that date, by which he bellows certain lands purchafed by him near Aberdeen, upon the univerfity there, in all time coming, for the education and fupport of fix poor fcholars. Among a variety of regulations and injun&ions for the management of this charity, he ap¬ points the magiftrates of Aberdeen his truftees, and folemnly denounces the curfe of God againft any perfon who fhall abufe or mifapply it *9. 1613, Upon the ninth of December in this year, he executed at Aber¬ deen another deed of fettlement, by which he confirms his former do¬ nation, and farther bequeaths to the Marifchal College, for the endow- B ment J; In the dedication of his Ars Medica to king James, he himfelf fays, “ me quoque in pcitriam redeuntem post exactos annos fere octo et viginti in exterorum regicnurn acadenilis---pr'l- mum in aids Germania,pojlremo in Academia Julia, annis nunc decem et septem,” 25 Frolejius Cafelii Epijl. ded. tr. 26 0ratio ha- bita Abredon. MS. 1696. 27 Cafelii Epi/i. ded. 28 Cafelii Epijl. adfnt. 29 Records tf Marifchal College, Aber¬ deen.