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[15] Dr. Edward Percival, the worthy son of a 

 worthy sire, the eminent Dr. Percival, of Manchester. 



[16] Dr. Haygarth, who settled in Bath rather 

 late in life, more, perhaps, as a place in which a man 

 may sink gently to rest after the fatigues of an active 

 life than as a field for professional exertion. His 

 son, Mr. William Haygarth, now dead, was the 

 author of a poem entitled " Greece." 



[17] The only other resident of Bath contempo- 

 rary with Herschel who can be singled out as likely 

 to have encouraged and assisted him, as far as I am 

 informed, is Dr. Walmesley, a Roman Catholic bishop 

 and vicar of the western district, who lived much in 

 Bath , and died there in 1 7 9 7 . His house was destroyed 

 in the riots of 1780. He is said by Roman Catholic 

 writers to have been " very eminent as a mathe- 

 matician and astronomer." He vvas also a theological 

 writer; as was his successor. Dr. Baines, the first 

 superior of the great establishment at Prior Park. 



A little before their time lived Ben.tamin Robins, a 

 self-taught man, but eminent as a mathematician and 

 Avriter ; and, since their time, Bath was the residence 

 for many years of Thomas Stephens Davies, who 

 attained a well-deserved reputation by his mathe- 

 matical investigations. 



