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warm supporter of the Medical-Missionary Society, the importance 
of which he was one of the first to recognise. While not entering 
deeply into science, he was fond of the study, and attended 
assiduously the lectures of Dr Fleming. He entered the Eoyal 
Society in 1841, and when in health was a regular attender of its 
meetings. His attachment to Dunkeld was warm, and showed it- 
self in substantial kindness. Every summer was spent at Birnam, 
till compelled to quit it in 1854. In 1860 he bought the small 
property of Canaan Park, where his latter years were tranquilly 
passed, till Christmas day 1863, when he died. 
Lieutenant-Greneral Thomas Egbert Swinburne was descended 
from the ancient family of the Swinburnes of Swinburne Castle, in 
Northumberland. His grandfather married Mary, co-heiress of 
Anthony Meaburne of Pontop Hall; his father married Charlotte, co- 
heiress of Eobert Spearman of Old Acres, in the county of Durham, 
and he succeeded to these properties. The estate of Marcus, in 
Forfarshire, he himself acquired by purchase. G-eneral Swinburne 
was born in 1784. He entered the 1st Foot-G-uards in 1813, served 
with them in Holland under Lord Lynedoch, subsequently in the 
Peninsula and South of France ; was in the campaign of 1815, 
including the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, the storming of 
Peronne, where he commanded a storming party, and the occupa- 
tion of Paris. He retired from active service on an unattached 
Majority, and came to reside in Edinburgh, where he had received 
part of his education. He became a Fellow of the Society in 
1839. He rose through the various grades to the rank of Major- 
G-eneral, which he attained on 4th June 1857, and was gazetted 
as Lieutenant-General only a few weeks before his death, which 
took place on 29th February 1864. Greneral Swinburne, though in 
no respect a cultivator of science, was, as a well-educated gentle- 
man, deeply interested in all that concerned the progress of human 
knowledge, and will long be cordially remembered by those who 
knew him for his personal and social qualities, which made him a 
typical specimen of the fine old English gentleman. 
Egbert Dundas Thomson, M.D., F.E.S.L. & E., was second son 
of the Eev. James Thomson, D.D., minister of Eccles, Berwick- 
