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contributions from his young friends in Canterbury as their very 

 moderate resources could supply. 



This period of Mr. Newport's life was marked by the greatest 

 privations, and he often, in after years, expressed some surprise how 

 he was able to bear up against them. Whatever his expenditure 

 was (and it was marvellously small), it was still supplied by the 

 same attached friends at Canterbury. It is pleasing to be able to 

 add, that all these precious debts were carefully recorded by him, 

 and gradually liquidated, in after years, as the means of doing so 

 came slowly into his possession. 



At the expiration of his apprenticeship, Mr. Newport went to 

 London to prosecute his medical studies. Through the friendly in- 

 tervention of a Physician, to whom he had been fortunate enough to 

 gain an introduction, he obtained a nomination to University College 

 (then the University of London), at which he was entered on the 

 16th of January, 1832 ; and on a representation of his peculiar cir- 

 cumstances being laid before the Professors, they all most readily 

 gave him gratuitous access to their respective lectures. There, be- 

 sides attending to the ordinary branches of professional instruction, 

 he became a diligent pupil in the class of Comparative Anatomy, 

 under Dr. Grant. After the usual course of study, he received his 

 qualification for practice both from the Company of Apothecaries 

 and the College of Surgeons; and in April 1835 obtained the ap- 

 pointment of House Surgeon to the Chichester Infirmary. This 

 appointment, slight as it was, may be said to have terminated his 

 struggles for existence, and placed him, for the first time, in a 

 position of comparative ease, security, and comfort. He, however, 

 did not long retain the office, having resigned it in the beginning of 

 1837. 



On leaving Chichester in January 1837, Mr. Newport returned 

 to London, entering soon afterwards into partnership with a young 

 Surgeon who had been for some time established in practice. This 

 partnership continued several years, but was not productive of satis- 

 factory results, either in a social or pecuniary point of view. On 

 its dissolution, Mr. Newport became more and more occupied with 

 his scientific pursuits, relishing his professional avocations less and 

 less, and becoming, in some measure, unfitted for them, so that for 

 a good many years before his death, the whole of his professional 



