: 
1803.] 
At Rolvendon, the Rey. John R. Coombe, 
_wicar of Tenterden, to Miss Morris, of the 
former place. 4 
At Bromley, Captain Robert Welbank, of 
the East India Company’s service, to Sarah, 
third daughter. of Major Rhode, esq. of Oak- 
ley Farm. 
At Canterbury, Anthony Whiting, esq. 
of Boxley, to Miss Ann Prentis, youngest 
daughter of the late George P. esq. of Maid- 
stone. 
At Ramsgate, Lieutenant Knight, of the 
Royal Navy, to Miss Kingsford. 
At Gravesend, Lieutenant Mackey, of 
the Royal Marines, to Miss Pattison, daugh- 
ter of the late P.esq. attorney. 
At Erstry, Mr. Thomas Pettman, formerly 
steward tothe late Archbishop of Canterbury, 
and much employed in the county, in the 
Valuation of estates 
At her brother’s house, at Cranbrook, 
in the 68th year of her,age, Mrs. Paine, wite 
of the notorious Thomas Paine,author of * Che 
Rights of Man,” to whom she was married 
at Lewes, in Sussex, in the yeam 1761. 
She had lived only three years with this as- 
serter of rights, when a separation took piace, 
occasioned by his brutal benaviour to her, 
since which she has lived with her friends. 
She was the daughter of Mr. Olive, a res- 
pectable tradesman in Lewes} she lived much 
respected, and died sincerely lamented. 
At the Vicarage-house, Petham, in his 
68th year, the Kev. Thomas Randolph, 
M.A. He was brother to the present Bishop 
of Bangor, and eldest son of the late Rev. 
Thomas Randolph, D.D. Archdeacon of 
‘Oxford, and Lady Margaret’s Professor of 
Divinity, and President of C.C; College, in 
that University. He was educated at West- 
minster Schowl, and was formerly Student of 
Christ Church. He had been many years 
Rector of the united parishes ot Saltwood 
and Hythe, and also Vicar of Petham and 
Waltham, Kent. He was also in the com- 
mission of the peace for the county; was a 
diligent parish priest and active magistrate, 
aid died universally lamented and regretted. 
At Woolwich, Major Alexander Spear- 
man, 47. 
At Sandwich, Terry Sayer, esq. one of 
the jurats of that town. f 
At Waitstable, Mrs. Wootton. 
At Lewisham, Eliza Ann Castell, eldest 
daughter of the late Samuel C. esy. of Lom- 
bara-street, 37. “4 ¢ f 
At Ramsgate, My. S. Bax, sen. 83.— 
Mrs. Hayward, 95. : 
At Canterbury, Charles, eldest son of 
Mrs. Charles Pout, 18.—Gilber: Knowles, 
esq. 
_ At Tenterden, Mr. William Mace, sur- 
geon. 1 
At Margate, Mrs, Franklin, wifé of Mr. 
¥.of the Bull’s Head Ino. 
At Groves, near Staple, Lady Lynch, res 
Vict of Sir William L. &. B. 74, 
Kent. 
293 
The Rev. Robert Breton, vicar of Bought 
on Aluph, 33. 
At Maidstone, Mr. J. Richards, 
At Deal, Mrs. Judith Christian.—Miss J, 
Oakley, third daughter of Thomas O. esq. 
At Rochester, Mr. Thomas Penn. 
At Chatham, Mary daughter of G, Man- 
ger, esq. of the Dock-yard.—-Mr. Lodder, of 
the Crown end Anchor, 
At his seat, Old Park, near Dover, Dr, 
Wiliam Osborne, formerly of Hanover- 
music, London, aged 76. He was born in 
the County of Rutland, where aftér obtain- 
ing a good classical education, he received 
the early part of his medical acquirements, 
under the guidance of Dr. John Fordyce, of 
Uppingham; who was also the instructor/of 
the late Dr. George Fordyce, and of Dr. 
Garthshore. | After passing some years at 
. Uppingham, he came to London, where he 
attended the lectures of the late Dr. Wil- 
liam Hunter, and the practice of St. George's 
Hospital, His industry in the pursuit. of 
knowledge, was much assisted by a memory 
uncoramonly retentive; anda happy art of 
so arranging all which he read and saw, as 
to be able always to produce it. with great 
readiness, when the occasion required it. 
This faculty aided by a well regulated judg- 
ment, probably contributed inf a great degree, 
to that celebrity, which he afterwards attain- 
ed in his profession. Having finished his 
studies in London; Mr. Osborn went to Pa- 
ris, where he attended the practice.ofthe 
Hotel, Dieu, and the teachers at that time 
in most estimation, especially the celebrated 
Levret. This gave the direction to his mind, 
which fortunately for the interests of man 
kind, led him into that departmenc of me- 
dicine, in which he maintained for many years, 
as long as his health permitted, the aighest 
character. Returning trom France, he tuok a 
professional situation in the guards, znd went 
with them to Germany, in the war at the 
end of the last, and beginning of the present, 
réign. It is not a little singular that many 
of the young men at that ume engaged in 
the service of their country, rose aiterwards 
to high reputation. Among them are to be 
numbered, Mr. john Hunter, Sir, Walter 
Farquhar, Dr. Kerr, of Northampton, 
Cr. Huck Saunders, Dr, Denmag, ang 
Dr. Osborn, the subject of tis memoir, 
At the conclusion of the war, he settied 
in London asa surgeon, but. his studies un- 
der Levret at Paris, yave a bias. to his mind, 
audled him to cevate his attention to the 
improvement of midwiiery, and che invesci- 
gation of the diseases incident to the female 
sex, and to children, . He vbserved, that 
whi.st the other departments of medicine had 
been successiuily cultivated Ly mea or edu- 
cation and science; these haa been grossly 
neglected, and the lives of women under 
circumstances often of the greatest peril, 
.committed to the most ignorant, iliteratey 
and unlniormed practisers, wiulst the disore 
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