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adhered — to set apart a large proportion of his income to purposes 
of benevolence. Upwards of forty years ago he began to investi- 
gate the hardships connected with imprisonment for debt, and he 
took a zealous and important part in procuring their mitigation. 
Subsequently his sympathies were warmly enlisted on behalf of 
Sailors’ Homes, and the thriving Home in G-lasgow, which was to 
a very large extent erected by his liberality, was the object of his 
constant care and unwearied bounty down to the close of his life. 
He bequeathed to it a legacy of L.2000 ; and a bust, from the chisel 
of Mr Gr. H. Ewing, has just been placed by the Directors in the 
hall of the institution as a fitting memorial of its patron. Almost 
all the public charities of Glasgow received, in addition to his 
regular contributions, special proofs from time to time of his 
liberality ; and equally cordial was his interest in the Bible Society, 
the City Mission, and other schemes to promote the good of the 
community. 
Not less remarkable was his interest in education, science, and 
art. Not to speak of his services and benefactions to the Buchanan 
Institution, the Mechanics’ Institute, the School of Art, Stirling’s 
Library, the Botanic G-arden (to which he left L.3000), and other 
agencies for helping the education and elevating the tastes of the 
people, he manifested a specially warm and constant zeal for the 
prosperity of Anderson’s University, of which he was long the 
most valued counsellor and, along with his friend Mr Young of 
Kelly, the most conspicuous and munificent patron. He devoted 
much of his time to its service, cherished a lively interest in its 
work and in its teachers, repeatedly made large donations to its 
funds, and, besides founding and endowing in it a Lectureship on 
Music, left to it a legacy of L.6000. He was an early subscriber 
of L.1000 to the new buildings of the University of Glasgow; and, 
besides various donations during his life, he has destined the sum 
of L.6000 to the endowment of fellowships bearing his name, the 
holders of which are to conduct tutorial classes of limited numbers, 
more especially during the vacation, and thereby “ to confer on the 
University some of the benefits derived from tutorial instruction 
at the English Universities.” Mr Euing was also a liberal patron 
of art, and had formed a considerable collection of pictures, thirty- 
six of which he presented during his life to the Corporation of 
