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BROCKLESBY. RICHARD. 



BUDDIE. SIR BENJAMIN. BART. 



tnnVmt Tim**.' Ha argues that the air in ancient time* mint have 

 been toon unwhoUxoine than it is at prawnt, Mthounh be admit* that 

 UM cyuulry was much more populotu and the |ople more healthy ; 

 he aocuunu for thU apparent discrepancy by their dres and their 

 nupner of living. 



ID 1888 BroittU sailed from Trieste for Egypt, a country which he 

 had long wiahed to examine, especially with regard to iu mineralogy. 

 He found favour with Mehemet Alt, who sent him on several miuioua, 

 supplying him with finn.vini, money, and an eacort He went first to 

 direct the working of a coal-mine, ami afterwards to look for the 

 emerald-mine* of Mount Zabarah, which Cailliaud and Belzoni had 

 visited some yean before. Broochl however found only some looae 

 piece* without their matrix, bat seems to bare considered any attempt 

 at working the mines a* useless labour. In 1825 Mehemet Ali sent 

 Brooehi into the newly-conquered kiugdom of Sennaar, u one of a 

 commission appointed to organise that country and make it* recourse* 

 available. In this expedition Broccbi fella victim to the unheolthines* 

 of the climate. He wrote to hu friend* in Italy iu April 1826, tbat lie 

 waa busy in prosecuting hu scientific researches and in promoting the 

 improvement of the natives ; that he enjoyed good health, notwith- 

 standing the heat was at 105. He was taken ill however in the 

 summer, and died at Cartum in September of that year. His friend 

 Acerbi, Austrian consul general at Alexandria, recovered liis papers 

 and collection', and forwarded them, according to bis will, to his 

 native town, Bassano. His rich collection of Italian minerals and 

 fossils he had given to his friend Parolini, of Bassano, before he set 

 out for Egypt Brocchi did more for the geology of Italy than any of 

 his predecessors. 



(Saechi, Parma Ittttraru, \ecrologia di Q. B. Brocchi.) 

 BKOCKLKSBY, RICHARD, the only son of Richard Brocklen- 

 by, Esq., of Cork, was born at Minehead, in Somersetshire, on the 1 1th 

 of August 17-2. After receiving the rudiments of education in his 

 father s house at Cork, he was sent to Ballytore school, in the north 

 of Ireland, where he formed an acquaintance with Edmund Burke, 

 which ripened into the most cordial friendship when they again met 

 in London. He afterwards studied at Edinburgh, and then at I.ey.leu. 

 where he took the degree of Doctor of Physio under the celebrated 

 Gaubivu, in June 1745, his inaugural thesis being a dissertation ' De 

 salivl aana et niorbosA,' 4to, Lugd. Bat, 1745. In 1746 he came to 

 London, and settled in Broad-street ; and the enmo year he published 

 an ' Essay concerning the Mortality of the Horned Cattle,' Svo, which 

 contributed to found his reputation. In 1751 ho was admitted a 

 licentiate of the College of Physicians; in 1754 he obtained the honorary 

 degree of M.D. from the University of Dublin, and being admitted ' ad 

 eundem ' at Cambridge, he wa< enabled to become a candidate, and in 

 1756, a Fellow, of the London College of Physicians. In 1758 he was 

 appointed physician to the army, and served in Germany during great 

 part of the Seven years' war, where he was distinguished by his zeal, 

 knowledge, and humanity ; and particularly recommended himself to 

 the notice of the Duke of Richmond, Lord Pembroke, and others. In 

 1760 ha was appointed physician to tho hospitals for the British forces, 

 and returned to England before the peace of 1763. He now quickly 

 obtained a large and increasing practice; and to this source of income 

 were likewi-e added his half-pay, and bis paternal estate of 6001 per 

 annum. Being unmarried he was enabled to live in a very handsome 

 style, and often entertained at his table some of the persons moot 

 distinguished for rank, abilities, or learning, in the kingdom. It is 

 related to his honour that he made munificent use of his wealth, 

 ; largely but judiciously in private and public charity, and 

 with a ready hand the deserving who stood in need of such 



In 1763 Dr. Brocklesby was called in to attend Wilkes, who was 

 suffering from a wound in the abdomen received in his duel with Mr. 

 Martin ; and it is thought that Wilkes's rapid recovery gave a great 

 impulse to his physician s rising reputation. Dr. Brocklesby preserved 

 in politics tho same moderation which was his general characteristic ; 

 for though he was a member of the Constitutional club, and a warm 

 advocate of Wilkva on the points of ' general warrants, and the Middle- 

 sue election,' he quitted the club as soon as it deviated into other 

 doctrines, under other leaders. In spite of tho placidity of his tempera- 

 ment, be was however once a principal in a duel, his antagonist being 

 Dr., afterwards Sir John Elliott; but the seconds took care to place 

 the combatant* at such a distance from each other that their b ill*, 

 even if they should hit, could not do much mischief. 



In 1794 Dr. Brocklcsby found the infirmities of age increase so fast 

 upon him that he declined visiting patients, except among his most 

 intimate acquaintance, and at the same time gave up his half-pay. 



1 >r. Brocklesby died on the llth of December, 1797, in his seventy- 

 sixth year, having returned that day from a visit to the widow of 

 Edmund Burks, at Reaootuneld. With the exception of a few legacies, 

 be left his fortune, which is said to have exceeded SO.OOOi, between 

 hk two nephews, Mr. Beeby and Dr. Thomas Young. 



Dr. Brocklesby was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and wrote two 

 papers in their ' Transactions :' ' An Account of the Poisonous Root 

 lately found mixed with Gentian' (No. 486); and 'Experiments on 

 OlMinf the Tendon, in various Animals ' (voL xliiL). Besides these, the 

 I * < fJJuiis before mentioned, and two or three papers in vols. iii. and 

 v. of Uedical Observations,' he was the author of tho following : 



'Enloginm Modicum, sive Oratio Anniversaria Harveiana,' Ac., 4to, 

 1760; '(Economical and Medical Observations from 1758 to 176S inclu- 

 siv, teii'lini; the Improvement of Medical Hospital*,' Svo, 1764. 



BRODKR1P, WILLIAM JOHN, has a claim to be recorded as 

 one of the most distinguinhed popular naturalists of our time. He has 

 an especial claim to a notice here, as one of the most valued contribu- 

 tors to the ' Penny Cyclopedia.' His articles iu our ' Knglish 

 pa-.lia ' form the largest amount of the zoological department Mr. 

 Broderip was born at Bristol, the son of an eminent medical prac- 

 titioner of that city, and received his early education in tho classical 

 school of the Rev. Samuel Beyer. He subsequently went to (lri-1 

 College, Oxford, where be took his degree. His destined profession 

 was the Itw ; nnd in the chambers of Mr. Godfrey Sykes he was a 

 fellow-pupil with two distinguished lawyers who subsequently rose to 

 the bench Sir John Patterson and Mr. Justice Coleridge. Mr. 

 Broderip was called to the bar in 1817 ; and after having edited a 

 legal work on ' Sewers,' and assisted in the publication of three 

 volume* of Law Report*, was appointed by Sir Uoh.-rt Peel a police 

 magistrate of the metropolis. In this position, of which he dichargo 1 

 the responsible duties with eminent industry and uprightness for 

 thirty-four years, Mr. Broderip devoted his leisure to scientific and 

 literary pursuits. During this long period of official labour, in which 

 his more agreeable studies never Interfered with his devotion to the 

 real business of his life, Mr. Broderip was steadily advancing in repu- 

 tation as a learned naturalist, and a most agreeable writer. II H 

 articles in the ' Cyclopaedia ' are models of scientific exactness and 

 popular attraction ; and whilst they have instructed and delighted 

 thousands of readers, have won the suffrages of the most fastidious, 

 even amongst those who ore slow to believe that the solid and the 

 amusing have no necessary antagonism. Mr. Broderip was elected a 

 Fellow of the Linnman Society in 1824, of the Geological Society in 

 1825, and of the Royal Society in 1828. He was one of the origi- 

 nators of the Zoological Society, of which he is now Vice- President ; and 

 he was Vice-President of the Geological Society in 1830, 1831, 1S33, 

 and 1834, and alxo Honorary Secretary for four years, with Sir Roger 

 Mnrcbison as his colleague. 



In addition to his articles in the ' Cyclopaedia,' which extended 

 through the entire work, Mr. Broderip is the author of many most 

 agreeable papers in the ' Quarterly Review,' on subjects of natural 

 history. He has been a constant contributor to the ' Transactions ' of 

 various learned societies ; and his amusing papers in periodical works 

 have not been confined to scientific subjects. He has published two 

 separate works of great merit 'Zoological Recreations' in 1847, and 

 ' Leaves from the Note-Book of a Naturalist ' in 1852. Mr. i'.roderip 

 made a magnificent collection of shells, which has been purchased 

 for the British Museum. From these and from other subjects of his 

 valuable museum, many of the woodcuts of the ' English Cyclopmdia ' 

 have been drawn. He has been a liberal purchaser of works of art, 

 and a generous contributor from his stores to any useful undertaking. 

 He is one of the executors of the will of Robert Vernon, the spirited 

 founder of that valuable collection of modern English pictures, ' The 

 Vernon Gallery.' Mr. Broderip's retirement from the magistracy hag 

 been thus noticed by ' The Examiner,' always foremost in its appre- 

 ciation of eminent merit : " Exemplary in the discharge of his duties, 

 Mr. Broderip, in his retirement from them, sets u not less admirable 

 example. A difficulty of hearing had lately increased upon him ; and, 

 mindful that an innocent man's fate may hang on a word bis judge 

 does not catch, he retires from an office he can no longer fill with a 

 perfect efficiency." The same competent authority says, " \Ve cannot 

 recollect a single instance of any question raised upon his conduct or 

 his decisions." 



P.KODIE, SIR BENJAMIN COLLINS, BART., was born in 1783, 

 at Wiuterslow, Wiltshire, of which place his father was rector. II; 

 mother was the daughter of Benjamin Colling, Esq., of Milford, near 

 Salisbury. He received his professional education at Mr. Wilson's 

 anatomical school in Great Windmill-street, London, and at St George's 

 Hospital, where he was pupil of Sir Everard Home. He afterwards 

 lectured on anatomy jointly with Mr. Wilson; gave lectures on surgery; 

 was elected assistant-surgeon to St George's Hospital in 1808, and 

 subsequently surgeon. Iu 1809 he contributed to tin- 'Philosophical 

 Transactions,' an ' Account of the dissection of a Human foetus, in 

 which the Circulation of the Blood was carried on without a Heart.' 

 In the following year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and 

 in 1811 received their Copley medal for his physiological papers. The 

 subjects of those, published in the ' Philosophical Transactions,' arc 

 ' On some Physiological Researches respecting the Influence of the 

 Brain on the Action of the Heart, and on the generation of animal 

 Heat,' 1811; ' Experiment* and Observations on the different modes 

 in which death is produced by certain Vegetable Poisons,' 1811, on 

 which he made further communications in the two following years. 

 These papers were republuhed in a separate form, with notes, in 1851. 

 In 1814 appeared ' Experiments and Observations on the Influence of 

 the Nerves of the Eighth pair on the Secretions of the Stomach.' 



Mr. Brodie was appointed Serjeant-surgeon to the Queen in 1832; 

 was created a Baronet in 1834 ; and in 1860 the University of Oxford 

 conferred on him the degree of D.C.L. He is a corresponding member 

 of the Institute of France, and a foreign member of other learned 

 societies and academies in Europe and America. He has one son, who 



