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the value of his services, by electing him to the 

 highest and most honourable situations which 

 they have had to bestow. The first stone, not 

 only of the Mechanics' Institute, but of the 

 building in which we are now assembled, was 

 laid by his hand; and on the first of July, 



the study of orthography was quite foreign to the pursuits which gave 

 employment to his vigorous mind. With regard to the error respecting 

 the parentage of Mrs. Opie, it will be best corrected by the following short 

 Pedigree j which will serve, at the same time, to shew by what ties of rela-* 

 tionship different members of the family, distinguished by their rank and 

 talent, have been united. 



The Rev. JOHN ALDERSON, = 



of Lowestoffe, mart. 

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cn i (A) 



Thomas, = James, = Robert, = John, 



mort. \ mort. \ mort. I 



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(a) Married to Henry Perronet Briggs, Esq., A, R. A. 

 (*) Lately a Physician at Norwich. 



(c) The Widow of John Opie, Esq., R. A. 



(d) Late Recorder of Norwich, Ipswich, and Yarmouth. 



fc) Knight, and one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas. 



C/) Chaplain to the Lord Chancellor Brougham and Vaux. 



(g) The Lady of Sir William Milman, Bart. 



(A) Lately a Physician at Hull, and the subject of the above sketch. In addition to 

 the children mentioned in this pedigree, Dr. Alderson had five daughters and a son, 

 all of whom died young and unmarried. 



(i) A Physician at Hull. Vide post. 



(*) The Lady of John Vincent Thompson, Esq., Recorder of Beverlcy. 



