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by the patron to the parish of Evie and Rendall. Dr 
Duguid there spent his early life, amid the quiet and 
retirement of a country parish, but surrounded by the 
natural beauties of land and sea, which often develop 
those tendencies inherent in us from ancestors whose 
mode of life engendered them. Face to face with the 
varied phenomena of land and shore, with swirling 
eddies and wave-washed cliffs, with a flora and fauna 
of great beauty and variety, he became a zealous 
student of Nature. It is said he early formed a - 
kindly and benevolent spirit, which was remarkably 
developed in after life. After studying three years at 
Aberdeen, he entered the University of Edinburgh 
with the view of studying medicine. In 1819 he 
graduated, and immediately thereafter commenced the 
practice of his profession in Kirkwall. He is said to 
have introduced “a scale of fees very different from 
what people had been accustomed to. With Dr 
Duguid, money-making was not a passion. His heart 
was in his work, and his desire was to do good to 
others.” He was an enthusiastic student of natural 
history, and devoted a considerable portion of his 
leisure to this department of scientific research. There 
was not a spot in the island where a rare plant was 
to be found with which he was not familiar. In 1831 
he was married to Elizabth Ann, daughter of Capt. 
Thomas M‘Kenzie of Groundwater, Orphir, by whom 
he had three sons and four daughters. His wife pre- 
deceased him in 1845. On the completion of the 
fiftieth year of his professional life in Kirkwall he 
was publicly presented with a silver claret jug and 
a purse of sovereigns. The jug bore the following 
