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Smith., daughter of Aaron Smith, wine merchant, Alnwick, by 

 whom he had three daughters. His wife died in 1840, and one 

 of his daughters shortly afterwards. He continued a widower 

 for about five years, when lie married Miss Mary Howey, daughter 

 of Henry Howey, Esq., Pasture Hill, Bamburghshire. Mr 

 Embleton was a successful medical practitioner. He was very 

 attentive and secured the confidence of his patients, while his 

 kind and gentle manner made his presence welcome in a sick- 

 room. He had a large and respectable practice, but it lay widely 

 scattered, and he attributed the spinal affection of his latter days 

 to the long rides he was compelled to take on horseback to see 

 his patients. In 1857, he left Embleton and went to reside at 

 Beadnell Cottage, the property of his sister-in-law, Mrs Taylor, 

 for whom he acted as agent. Before leaving Embleton a large 

 party of friends invited him to dinner, at which the late Mr Geo. 

 Tate presided. Mr Embleton still continued to practice until his 

 son-in-law, Robert Buchanan Graham, took the sole charge of 

 the business. In 1867 he was seized with paralysis, which 

 gradually became worse, until it incapacitated him from all 

 mental and physical exertion. He died at Beadnell Cottage, 6th 

 January, 1877. 



Mr Embleton early began the study of botany, and to make a 

 herbarium, and for upwards of 40 years he was an indefatigable 

 collector. He was particularly neat and methodical in arranging, 

 and took great care to get the most perfect specimens. His 

 herbarium shows that lie was in correspondence with the most 

 eminent botanists of the day. The publication of Dr Johnston's 

 Flora of Berwick, in 1829, caused him to contemplate making a 

 similar Flora of Embleton and the neighbourhood, and I have 

 seen a copy of the Berwick Flora interleaved and arranged by him 

 with that view, but he did not work it out. 



Mr Embleton was, for many years, a careful student of marine 

 zoology. The fishermen whenever they found anything that 

 they had not before observed, always took it to the Doctor. He 

 formed a large collection of native and exotic shells, Crustacea, 

 Echinodermata, &c. Mr Hardy, our worthy secretary, records 

 that Mr Embleton " was the first to discover on these northern 

 shores two rare and beautiful native corals, Eschar a foliacea and 

 E. cervicomis, also a coralline, new to science, Eudendrium 

 capillar e, from Embleton Bay." He sent Mr Alder, of Newcastle, 



