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ward occurrence. Beyond the faintest blush which, perhaps, now and 

 then for a moment passed over his countenance, no indication of any- 

 kind appeared that he was in the least degree affected. This wonderful 

 equanimity made him the same at all times and under every circumstance. 

 Whatever he may have occasionally felt was knov/n only to himself. So 

 far as observation went, the worst difficulties of an operation, or the 

 storm of an indignant assembly, alike failed to evoke any evidence of 

 emotion. 



In the memoir of Sir Benjamin Brodie, which appeared in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Society, it was truly said, " There is no profession where a 

 man may in his lifetime be so distinguished, and leave behind so slight a 

 record of his life, as the profession of Medicine or of Surgery. With the 

 death of the man, there perishes in such case a vast amount of personal 

 skill and observation, which, being unwritten, and, indeed, not capable of 

 being written, can be am.assed again only by the combination of similar 

 talent, opportunity, and industry in another individual." Lawrence was 

 an eminent illustration of this. Great and various as the merits are of the 

 chief of his published works, they afford no adequate conception of their 

 author. Lawrence, too, was greater in speech than in writing : as a lec- 

 turer, in his best days, he w^as probably without a rival ; and those who 

 knew him Avell will endorse the opinion of Sir Benjamin Brodie, that he 

 was even greater in ordinary conversation than in public speaking. But, 

 in truth, just as nov/ his fame will not rest upon any single brilliant dis- 

 covery, but upon the record of his whole work, so during life he was not 

 remarkable for one great faculty in particular, but rather for that harmo- 

 nious combination of various powers which made his character so com- 

 plete. As a surgeon his name must ever be amongst the foremost of those 

 which adorn the annals of his profession. W. S. S. 



John Lee, eldest son of John Fiott (a descendant of an old Burgun- 

 dian family), was born April 28th, 1783. He entered St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, and in 1806 was fifth Wrangler, the senior for that year being 

 Sir Frederick Pollock. In 1816 he took his degree of LL.D., and was 

 afterwards elected a Fellow of the College, when, as Travelling Bachelor, 

 he travelled widely on the Continent and in the East, during which time 

 he gathered materials for the interesting collection of antiquities, which 

 were subsequently arranged at Hartwell. In 1815 he changed his name 

 by royal licence from Fiott to Lee, in compliance with his uncle's will, his 

 mother having been daughter of Wilham Lee, Esq., of Totteridge Park, 

 and granddaughter of Sir William Lee, Lord Chief Justice in 1754. 



In 1827 Dr. Lee succeeded to the whole of the family property, and be- 

 came Lord of the manors of Hartwell, Stone, and Bishopstone, and patron 

 of the livings of the two places first mentioned. The presentation to 

 these livings he afterwards conferred on the Royal Astronomical Society, 

 of which he was Treasurer from 1831 to 1840, and President in 1861-62. 



