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later on, one-half of the net fishings at the fords of Dee, on condition that 
he should ‘ mak personale residence within the said burghe, and cum 
and vesy tham that beis seik, and schow tham his medicin.’ As Cumyne 
is designated ‘ Master ’ he was evidently a University graduate. He was 
made Professor of Medicine, the first, at King’s College—known at first 
as the College of St. Mary. He is believed to have assisted Hector Boece, 
first Principal of the College, in the composition of his History of 
Scotland. Cumyne died about 1522. 
Dun, Patrick.—Dr. Patrick Dun practised as a physician in Aberdeen 
with great success, and was Principal of Marischal College from 1621 to 
1649. He was a wealthy man, and open-handed. One of his benefac- 
tions was 2000 merks to Marischal College for repair of damage caused 
by a fire in 1639. 
FarQuuHar, Sir WALTER.—This eminent London surgeon, whose story 
is told by Dr. James Mitchell, in his singular collection The Scotsman’s 
Library, came from Peterhead. He became a student at King’s College 
and University, and was befriended particularly by Prof. John Gregory. 
He settled in London as an apothecary, and made a fortune. He 
became physician to the celebrated Duchess of Gordon, and through 
this connection Farquhar became associated, as a physician and otherwise, 
with persons of the highest rank in England and Scotland. He died in 
1820. Sir Walter was a generous man. Among other benefactions to 
the Abesdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society he presented to it, in 1815, 
the portrait of Harvey, which he had received from Lord Besborough, 
the most valuable portrait in the Society’s possession. 
ForpYcEe, GEORGE.—He was born in 1736, son of a small proprietor 
at Aberdeen, and graduated M.A. at Marischal College and University 
at the age of fourteen. In London, for thirty years, he taught Chemistry, 
Materia Medica, and Practice of Physic, carrying on at the same time the 
ractice of a physician. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of 
Pilate! was chosen physician to St. Thomas’s Hospital, F.R.S. in 
1776, Fellow of the College of Physicians, 1787, and between 1771 and 
1802 he published about a dozen treatises on medical and chemical sub- 
jects. More remarkable than all, perhaps, was his being elected a member 
of the Club organised by Dr. Johnson, whose playful antipathy to Scots- 
men was noted, and who may have had Fordyce, if not Boswell also, in 
view when he framed the fifth rule of the Club that ‘ every member present 
at the Club shall spend at least sixpence.’ Fordyce died in 1802, an 
esteemed and eminent man. 
Forpyce, Sir Witt1amM.—The portrait, by Angelica Kaufmann, of 
Sir William Fordyce, founder of the Fordyce Chair in Agriculture in 
Aberdeen University, used to be considered the most valuable of the 
old pictures in Marischal College. He was a graduate of Marischal 
College, who, after serving in the continental wars of the eighteenth 
century, settled in London and developed a large and lucrative practice. 
He was F.R.S., was knighted, and was three times honoured by his old 
University in being elected Rector, in 1790, 1791, and 1792. 
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