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which they were called, whether it were as ministers of state, as 
judges, as professors in the university, as landed proprietors, as 
theologians, or lawyers. The following is the list of departed Fel- 
lows of the Society : — 
Right Hon. the Earl of Aber- 
deen, K.G. & K.T. 
Robert Bell, Esq., Advocate, 
Edinburgh. 
Right Hon. Lord Campbell, Lon- 
don. 
John Gordon, Esq., Cairnbulg, 
Aberdeenshire. 
Professor J. Shank More, Edin- 
burgh. 
Sir James Miles Riddell, Bart., 
Strontian. 
The Rev. James Robertson, D.D. 
E. D Sandford, Esq., Advocate, 
Edinburgh.* 
Of the late members on our obituary list, the first is the name of 
a statesman, a man of the world, a scholar, an antiquary. George 
Hamilton Gordon, K.G. and K.T., fourth Earl of Aberdeen, was 
born in 1784, and died December 14th, 1860, at the ripe age of 
seventy-six. Although far from what would be called a man of 
brilliant talents, or of great powers of oratory, still, during this long 
life, few men were more distinguished as filling with much ability 
high and responsible positions, few were more respected for private 
worth, and few more generally known for scholar-like attainments. 
Lord Aberdeen was educated at Harrow, where he laid the founda- 
tion of a classical taste and acquirement such as I am disposed to 
think nothing can so effectually accomplish as an English public 
school. He went to St John’s College, Cambridge, and graduated 
there in 1804. But previous to this he had been attached to the 
embassy at Paris, and had gone with Lord Cornwallis, who was 
there as our ambassador to negotiate the Peace of Amiens in 1801. 
He formed intimacies with many leading men of the day, and com- 
menced that knowledge of continental politics for which he after- 
wards became so celebrated, and from which he was enabled so long 
to administer with much skill and ability the Foreign Department 
of the British Government. 
He did not remain long in Paris in 1801, but before return- 
ing to England travelled in Greece, where he brought his classical 
attainments to bear upon his study of the beautiful architectural 
remains and interesting localities of the country. This sojourn in 
Greece (when access to foreign parts was less open to British 
travellers than it is at present) procured for Lord Aberdeen the 
* The names are alphabetically arranged. 
