io FOTHERGILL'S BIRTH AND TRAINING CHAP. 



died in 1744, loved and honoured by his children, and 

 his example was a strong influence in their lives. Dr. 

 Fothergill compiled an Account of his father's Life and 

 Travels, which was published in 1753 : it consisted chiefly 

 of his American journals. Twenty-five years later the 

 doctor and his sister paid a visit to their father's burial 

 place at Scotton, near Knaresborough. " We rejoiced," 

 writes the former, " in the remembrance of his life : if 

 we wept, it was not from sorrow." 1 



The care and education of the future doctor devolved 

 much upon his uncle, Thomas Hough, by whose means he 

 was sent first to a day-school at Frodsham, and afterwards 

 at the age of twelve years to the old Grammar School at 

 Sedbergh, then under the long and tranquil rule of Dr. 

 Samuel Saunders. Fothergill and his brother Samuel 

 lived in a family at Brigflatts whilst attending the school. 

 Here he was well grounded in letters, acquiring facility in 

 the Latin tongue and some knowledge of Greek. 2 



Thence at the age of sixteen he went to Bradford in 

 Yorkshire to be apprenticed to an eminent Friend apothe- 

 cary, Benjamin Bartlett. The indenture, dated 1728, 

 states that John Fothergill, junior, hath of his own will 



1 On John Fothergill, see Account of J. Fothergill, p. 113, etc. ; Mem. S. 

 Fothergill, MS. Letters, Friends' Reference Library, London (Portf. 36, 43, 

 and others) ; Collection of Testimonies concerning Quakers, London, 1760, 

 p. 180 ; J. Gough, Hist, of the Quakers, iv. 326 ; Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, The 

 Youth of Washington, p. 20 ; Diary of John Smith, 1736, in A. C. Myers* 

 Hannah Logan's Courtship, p. 336 ; Tuke, op. cit. 



Two of Dr. Fothergill's brothers left descendants. Alexander Fothergill, 

 the elder of the two, lived on at Carr End. One of the latter's grandsons, 

 Samuel Fothergill, born 1780, became M.D. of Glasgow in 1802, with a thesis 

 De Phantasmatis in jEgrotos potentia. He settled in Leicester Square, London, 

 where he was physician to the Western Dispensary, and co-editor of the 

 Medical and Physical Journal from 1810 to 1821. His work on Tic Douloureux 

 will be mentioned later. Owing to pulmonary weakness he went abroad, and 

 died in Jamaica in 1822 : his widow lived to 1878. See Munk, Roll Roy. 

 Coll. Phys. and the Catal. Surg. Gen. Lib. Charles Fothergill of Toronto, a 

 naturalist and literary man (b. 1780, d. 1841), was a brother of Dr. S. 

 Fothergill. 



Another grandson, John Fothergill, was a surgeon at Darlington, and the 

 ancestor of several Fothergills in the medical and dental professions, including 

 Dr. William Edward Fothergill of Manchester. See also p. 17 note. An 

 account of the descendants of Alexander Fothergill is contained in The 

 Thistlethwaite Family, by Bernard Thistlethwaite, 1910. The offspring of 

 Dr. John Fothergill's brother Joseph will be spoken of in a later chapter. 



2 Sedbergh School Register, 1909, pp. 163, 164. G. Harrison, Mem. W. 

 Cookworthy, p. 134. 



