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abilities. In 1769, when Sir William was appointed 

 Governor of Jamaica, Wolcot obtained a diploma, and 

 accompanied him in the capacity of physician. After a 

 time, he returned to England, procured ordination as a 

 clergyman, and went back to Jamaica. 



On the death of Sir W. Trelawny, he returned to England 

 gave up a clerical life, and settled at Truro, in the medical 

 profession. He afterwards fixed his abode in London 

 where he became an acknowledged satirist, and the tor- 

 mentor of old King George III. We can feel but little 

 respect for the memory of this clever, but unscrupulous 

 man. It is only fair, however, to state that "he nobly 

 threw up the pension with which Government silenced 

 him, when he found that he had to write for the adminis- 

 tration he despised.'* In the latter part of his life, Dr. 

 Wolcot's literary pursuits were impeded, though not entirely 

 suspended, by cataracts in his eyes, which occasioned 

 sufficient blindness to prevent his reading, which had been 

 one of his greatest sources of enjoyment; and an increasing 

 deafness rendered much conversation fatiguing to him. He 

 died on 14th of January, 1819, in his eighty-first year, 

 and was buried in St. Paul's, Covent Garden; his coffin, 

 at his special request, being placed touching that of Butler, 

 the author of Hudibras. 



There was in the possession of the late C. Prideaux, Esq., 

 a beautifully-executed miniature of Dr. Wolcot, the work 

 of W. S. Lethbridge, of whom we shall speak in due 

 time. 



GEORGE MONTAGU, ESQ., F.L.S., M.W.S. 

 Knowle House, which is at the head of the town of 

 Kingsbridge, was, from the year 1799 to the middle of 

 1815, occupied by the late Colonel Montagu, who was the 



