fBTHT. JOHN. 



ABINQER, LORD. 



14 



fife I 



which aloe* nffulatod th* praotio* 

 "I with oeridio* what 

 of, and mainly coo- 

 to buM p. a MW edinos. By the dUigeal stadv of nature. 

 'isjUaail nwMliH oo what b* saw. and. M he himself ex- 

 it, th* MMsMsMioe, of what b* MW, b* reduced to order 

 HMbsrie th* Miflm bad looked upon the 



I by nrtt 



Hd K h* 



I of *liMin whieb It WM hi* part to tnat, diseMM which almost 



>lwJJ have IOM! Ma*. M iH which bar* also a local origin. 



i which an to b* cured by local applies- 

 merit of first perceiving, in 



MM EM 



-j _ L- 



OT| WIMB M WH^U W D* 



i of th* treatment that grew oat of it In 

 i and original observation, and *xhibWng 

 ophioal views, entitled, 'The Constitutional 



To AUatethy bslnssp the greet m.rit of ant perceivin 

 aiMl. OMltar {MOBp^ibOity of Ub aotioa with tbe 



I of Looal DUeae**/ b* lay* down Mid **tabliah*s 

 tbss~ frsoi principle : Thai local dieeM** art symptoms of di- 

 sTtst c*M*it.)uQ)SX srlrt 



I pri*V*w*VTT tod il)<Wp*MX}sM)t HuUjsVdiAsl ; 4U*d 



thai iWy re to b* cored by reoiedle. oatoojated to make a salutary 

 laaMWMM) oo th* gMMral from*, not by topical drMsing, DOT any 

 SWM* MfailhtlMsl of sarnry. Tbi* aingl* principle changed th* 

 SMBOOI ** the eaOre told of surgYrr, and elevated it from a manual 

 art into th. rank of soiiBO*. And to this Brat prineipl* be added 

 eoood. the runs of which I* perhara aocofwhat IMS extenaive, but 

 Ik* *i*n*l*il ItsaqrwMO* of which is scaroely inferior to that of the 

 .. tW this dsaordorad state of the comtitution either 

 from, or i* liforoosly allied with derangement, of tbe 

 only b* reached by remedies 

 thin organ*. The 



ly 



aa.1 bowels, aad that it 

 is* HIHW.I a curaUre iufl 



:. ! 

 mankind 



benete d^ly aad booriT oooferred upon mankind by the elucidation 

 and seUhtiibaswt of the** two prioc.pl-, both by the prevention and 

 tbe altsgaiiosi of diM aad sunenug, it were rain to attempt to 



tutd U Is awt ***y to pay to 

 wmieb i. hi. due. 



awJt | ::. U*f 



of tb* structure and function. 



iliU>h* of which bM SSM* bow attended with ipUodid suooeM- 

 MMtjr.th* tying Ih* carotid and th* external iliac arteri**. The 

 iiiiiiBint of th* p*tformaoo* of UMM capital operation, at once 

 imtillilil hi* reputation M a sorg* 

 the Kssjtish sobooltbioutl 

 Orsai 



J throughout Eoropo. 



M WM th* reputation which 



|fk|gBSlS^ BsltlVMOLslVilljl. 



s ow^ his e^brity clueaTtobU i 

 ' and sissnil t 



operation* 

 andlncroMed tbe e*t**m of 



MSVSM*, impiwalva, an 1 fMrimHtw manner, whatever 

 krw. EMy and fluMt, y*t not inelegant abounding w 

 Uon *>> MMilit*. ye* Msthodiool-kciMl. yet often witt; 

 Mwslly tnuaoroo* almost to nmraonM* M!I! imnui 



thU distinguished man 

 .n, it is probable 

 a teacher. Gifted 

 h* WM endowed 

 ; to others in a clear, 

 be himself 

 rith illustro- 



yet often witty, and ooesv 

 to imrMOMS seldom impusiooed, yet 

 rar allowing th* attention of hi* audi.no. 

 wraategj* sMtMOt-it WM rare, ind*d. that b* nuled to 

 whoever beard him, and u ran that b* failed to make 

 WM Mwvinesd iiillii partiMn. N.vrth*less, a highly 

 it IU ill, MiiklH apporeotly boa a careful and mature 

 > oY tk^ impra*sM mod* opon bis own mind by th* preleo- 

 .f hi. MMtor. gjv th* followtof aooount, whiou, if true, i. 

 U*T sfiiinnkh M U th* Miwi nsolt of tb* mod* and 

 spirit of hi* lectoring. " H* s *JoqunUy expounded soto. of ih* 

 i^.t 1 r-IV^.*Dr. I-h,T^ b. i SSTS-Ju^W 



ibJMt*; bemad* that *o easy which 



UM of SOOBT absent 

 Mjimonh, Ibot 



for 



portion of hi. 

 Bt be ienrl all hi. 

 be eo reel paid it, eo aet 

 -* W IM U. wfll know wkt In.) ; 



Uborioo. Uanher. after 



W. 



-*2* fc tlf?5 tw " P* I 



We should bar. bsM ashamed to do 

 i* with **.aulim. Md voted oarMlfwj by 

 - of Motel IkUtoonhoi^ M the M y rate 

 TWgrwt Lord Chatham, it is said, had 

 piso*nev into th* sniod* of other meo, 

 WM erw.qusrter of **, boor in hi* oocapuv without 

 Ui Lord ChoOaa WM th* An* MM ta UiTWorld sad 

 W* *^**bil i * d .*.** *** wM> * P> oopii* and MrT* 



that he 

 to get at it, ud 



at all eyenU in no mood to be aatUAed with anything but the cutiro 

 truth, 



Tbe private character of Mr. Abernetby was blameleu. He waa 

 highly honourable in all hi. tranaaotiona, and incapable of duplicity, 

 niMDDiM. artifice, or aervility. HU manner, in the domestic circle 

 were gentle, and eren playful ; be gave to tboM about him a large 

 portion of what hi. heart really abounded with teudenieas and affec- 

 tion ; and on hi. part he wu tenderly beloved by hi. children aud by 

 all the mnnben of bit family. In public, and more especially to hi. 

 patieaU, hi. maoDen were coane, ctpriciou., churlub, and eouutime* 

 brutal. It would not be difficult to account for tliw anomaly 



wan then any uee in punuiug the investigation : hi. conduct iu thi 

 reepect merit, unqualified ceniure. 



For a lUt of the vanou. Tract* published by Mr. Abernethy, eee 

 Watt'. ' Bibliotbeca Britannica.' A collected Edition of hi. Surgical 

 Work* appeared in 1S15, 2 rols. 8vo. ('Memoir, of Abernethy,' by 

 George Macilwain. 2 voU. 8ro. London, 1853.) 



ABINQER, LORD. Janet Scarlett wai a native of Jamaica, where 

 hi. family wa. wealthy and of long standing. He wa. the aeoond son 

 of Robert Scarlett, Eeq., and wu born in or about the year 1769. Hi. 

 mother', name wa. Eluabeth Anglin. The family estates went, it may 

 be praeumed, to the eldeet eon ; a third aon, who also remained at 

 home, and followed the profewioo of tbe law in Jamaica, became Sir 

 William Anglin Scarlett, and Chief Justice of Jamaica, and died there, 

 after having held that office for many yean. Jarnee wu at an early 

 age tent to England. Having finished his elementary education, he 

 waa, about tbe year 1736, entered a Fellow Commoner at Trinity 

 College, Cambridge ; and he wu also, a year or two after, admitted a 

 student of the loner Temple. He took hii degree of B.A. in 1790; 

 wu called to the bar 8th July, 1791 ; and graduated M.A. in 1791. 

 HU success at tbe bar wu very decided from the first, and every year 

 added to his reputation and his emolument*. It wu soon discovered 

 that, from whatever cause, no young barrister gained so large a propor- 

 tion of verdict*. Even while he was still a junior counsel, he wu 

 very frequently eutnuted with the sole conduct of important case*. 

 At last, in 1816, he received a silk gown ; aud from that date ire wu 

 reoogniaed u the leader of his circuit (the Northern), and u occupying 

 also a foremost place in Westminster Hall. 



He had made an attempt to be returned to parliament for the 

 borough of Lewes at the general election in October, Is 12, but wan 

 defeated by Mr. Qeorge Shiffner, who wu brought in, u second member, 

 by a majority of 164 to 154 ; and he failed also in a second attempt on 

 the same borough when a vacancy wu occasioned in 1816 by the 

 death of the other member, Mr. T. It Kemp, being then defeated by 

 Sir John Shelley. He wu first introduced to the Hoiue of Commons 

 in 1818, u one of the member, for the city of Peterborough, under 

 the patronage of Earl Kitzwilliam. He did not however make a figure 

 in parliament correeponding to his eminence at the bar ; nor wu he 

 a frequent apeaker, although be supported both Sir Samuel Komilly 

 and Sir James Macintoah in their efforts to mitigate the severity of the 

 criminal law, and also occasionally took part in debates on financial 

 subject*. 



He wu returned again for Peterborough at the general election in 

 1820 ; but be resigned hi* seat in 1822 to stand for the University of 

 Cambridge, when, however, be wu left at the bottom of the poll. 

 Upon this he wu re-elected for Peterborough, but not till after a 

 contest with Mr. Samuel Well*. Up to this time he bad been consi- 

 dered M distinctly belonging to the Whig party, although to the most 

 moderate section of it ; but hi* opinions gradually assumed more of a 

 Conservative complexion, and when the new Tory or mixed adminis- 

 tration of Canning came into power in April, 1827, Mr. Scarlett, having 

 been again returned for Peterborough at the general election in the 

 preceding year, accepted th* office of Mtorney-generaL He wu at the 

 same time knighted. Having been once more returned for Peter- 

 borough be retained his place throughout the administration of Lord 

 Ooderioh ; wu succeeded by Sir Charles Wetherell when the Duke of 

 Wellington became premier in January, 1828 ; but wu reinstated in 

 May, 1829, upon the dismissal of Sir Charles for his opposition to the 

 Koman Catholic Emancipation Bill; and, having been returned for 

 Maldon at the general election in 1830, he remained attorney-general 

 till the accession to office of the Whigs in November of that year, when 

 he wu succeeded by Mr. (afterwards Lord) Deumau. 



At th* general election in May, 1831, Sir James Scarlett wu returned 

 to parliament for Cookermouth. At the next, which took place after 

 the paving of the Reform Bill, in December, 1832, he wu returned, 

 after a contest, for Norwich, along with Lord Stormont (now Earl of 

 Mansfield). When this parliament wu dissolved in December, 1834, 

 on Sir Robert Peel being appointed premier Sir James Scarlett wu 

 mad* Chief Baron, and a peer by the title of Baron Abiuger, of Abiu- 

 gcr, in tbe county of Surrey, and of the city of Norwich. 



Lord Abinger died of a sudden attack of illness at Bury St. Edmunds, 

 while on the circuit, on the 7lh of April, 1844. He had been Uice 

 married ; first in August, 1792, to the third daughter of Peter Camp- 

 bell, Esq., of Kilmorey, in Argyletbire, who died iu March, 1829 

 secondly, in September, 1843, to Elizabeth, daughter of Lee Steere 

 Steer*, Esq., of Jays, Surrey, aud widow of the Rev. H. J. Ridley, of 

 Ockley. By bis first wife he bad three sons and two daughters. Hia 

 eldest son succeeded to his title and estate*; hi* eldest daughter, the 



