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it was the outcome of her residence at the “Oak,” as the inn was 
always called in those days. 
Governor Stephenson’s parents had sent their son out to India 
from the Royal Oak, and he returned after a successful and useful 
career to his native place, where he built Governor’s House on the 
site now occupied by Dr. Ring’s house. 
Mr. and Mrs. I‘Anson also sent out a son, in the hope that he 
might have equal success; but a tombstone in Crosthwaite 
churchyard records that “John I‘Anson, a Lieutenant in the 11th 
Regiment of Native Infantry, died at Tinnevelly, in the East 
Indies, September 12th, 1812, in the 22nd year of his age. By 
his Regiment universally beloved and deeply lamented.” 
The year before Mr. I‘Anson retired, the riding work was raised 
to £291 2s. 4d., and the salary of Mr. I‘Anson at the time of his 
retirement was £24. 
In 1808 Mr. James Atkinson was appointed, and the salary 
appears as £46, and the allowance for riding work £225 4s. od. 
There was no further alteration until 1841, when the salary was 
reduced to £40, and an allowance of £20 a year was granted for 
assistance; and at this it continued until February, 1846, when 
Mr. Atkinson resigned. 
Mr. James Atkinson was a Keswick man, and he had received a 
superior education. He had gone to Penrith to be clerk to Mr. 
Buchannan, the postmaster and keeper of the George Hotel at 
that place. He mentioned that as soon as the letters were ready 
for delivery, he used to go into the Square in front of the George, 
and blow a horn to apprize the townspeople. 
Mr. Atkinson married the widow of Mr. Daniel Dunglison, a 
woollen manufacturer who died young, and she carried on the 
business single-handed for some time with success, after her first 
husband’s decease. She was the mother of Professor Robley 
Dunglison, M.D., of Jefferson College, Philadelphia, U.S., whose 
medical works have a world-wide circulation and reputation. After 
thirty-six years absence in America, Dr. Robley Dunglison paid a 
visit to his mother at her residence in Keswick, where he was 
brought up. Many present will remember his genial conversation 
