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of Edinburgh, Session 1869-70. 
an appeal to the Court, was set aside, and a verdict in his favour 
unanimously given by a second jury. 
His health was for some time delicate, and it was found that he 
had severe disease of the heart. He died on the 29th July 1869, 
after an illness of much suffering, borne with pious and exemplary 
patience. His removal, thus occurring in the prime of life, was felt 
as a great loss and a severe affliction by his relatives and friends. 
Dr Robert Dyce was the eldest son of the late Dr William D) ce, 
an eminent physician in Aberdeen. He was born in November 
1798, and was the eldest of a family of sixteen, of whom the late 
eminent artist, Mr William Dyce, was one. He took his degree of 
M.A. at Marischal College in 1816, and afterwards studied medicine 
at Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and London. After being for some time 
attached to the Military Hospital at Chatham, he went out, in 1821, 
on a staff appointment to the Mauritius. There he became 
extremely popular with the English residents, from whom he 
declined to take fees for medical attendance, but who eagerly 
showed their gratitude by valuable presents. He was afterwards 
transferred to the Cape, where he remained for five years, and 
married the daughter of a gentleman holding a high official posi- 
tion there. He returned to England in 1833, and spent a 
winter in Aberdeen, after which he accepted a staff appointment 
at Maidstone ; but in 1836, on the death of his father, he was 
induced to settle in his native town, where he succeeded to an 
extensive practice and to valuable appointments. In 1860, on the 
union of the two Colleges at Aberdeen into one University, he was 
appointed to the Professorship of Midwifery, then established, 
having previously held a college lectureship on that branch of 
science for nearly twenty years. 
Both as a lecturer and as a practitioner in his special depart- 
ment he was looked up to as a high authority ; and to his students, 
as well as to all who came in contact with him, he recommended 
himself by his kind and courteous manners, and his high principles 
and honourable feelings, which were in every respect those of a 
thorough gentleman. His medical assistance to the poor was given 
gratuitously, with unremitting and unostentatious liberality. He 
was an accomplished man, well acquainted with several import- 
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