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of that Professor’s still more famous son, Professor Dugald 
Stewart. He was educated here at the High School and Univer- 
sity, under the eye, and very much in the family, of his uncle ; 
a precious privilege, which, among other advantages, secured for 
him the early, and throughout life uninterrupted, friendship of 
several of the greatest men in the subsequent history of our 
country, such as Lords Palmerston, Lansdown, and Brougham, 
who were his uncle’s pupils. 
Three years after graduation he settled in Exeter, where he was 
so well received, that in two years more he was appointed physi- 
cian of the Exeter Hospital for the sick. He soon became the 
leading physician of the town and adjacent country ; — a position 
for which he was eminently qualified by his large, highly-culti- 
vated mind, his courteous, kindly, gentle manner, combined with 
great energy and decision, high professional attainments, and a 
strong, robust, healthy frame and constitution. He was also 
constantly employed in doing good in other ways in the city of 
his adoption. He was an original founder, or active promoter, of 
every one of the various public institutions, organised in his life- 
time at Exeter, for the bodily care and mental culture of the 
labouring classes, in whose welfare he constantly took great interest. 
In these days of rapid development and change in the medical 
sciences, and in the details of medical practice, there are not 
many men of Hr Miller’s unquestionable ability, who, in pro- 
fessional positions parallel to his, have not contributed by their 
writings to some branch or another of professional progress. But 
Hr Miller’s tastes did not lie in the direction of medical publi- 
cation, although his wide and long experience must have supplied 
him with great store of materials. 
Until eight years before his death, Hr Miller continued to retain 
great bodily activity. Kheumatism, however, then gradually 
circumscribed his powers in that respect ; but the faculties of his 
mind, even his memory, are stated by one who knew him well, to 
have been preserved unsubdued till very near the close of his life. 
He repeatedly visited Scotland and Edinburgh, to keep alive 
his old associations ; but for many years past I fear he must have 
encountered very few to recall to him his old associates. His 
regard for his University was shown a few years ago by his pre- 
