1712. 
x8or.] 
Meifen. It is worth obferving, that Wein- 
fig, by his archite€tonic work concerning 
tbe interior ornamenting of rvoms (of which 
four numbers in folio have been publifhed 
at the expence of the author himfelf,), 
has given the firft example in Germany of 
employing the Arabefques, for whichshe 
-had pleaded already in his Letters, and 
other architegtonic ornaments in the inte- 
rior decoration of rooms, and has inftilled, 
even into fuch as are not verfed in archi- 
tecture, a relith for things of this kind, by 
neatly coloured models. But Weinlig not 
only invented and compofed fuch decora- 
tions on paper, he likewife knew. how to 
execute them on a larger fcale, of which 
every one will be convinced, by viewing 
his decorations of the Hall and the Belve~ 
dere in Prince Maximilian’s fummer-pa- 
lace at the fuburbs of Drefden, The Elec- 
tor of Saxony, fully fenfible of thefe 
Meritsyentrufted him with the confidential 
place of Chief ArchiteS: of the whole 
country (Ober-Land-Banmeifter), and his 
. premature death has been deplored, not 
only in Saxony, but in all Germany. He 
was a great artift, an amiable friend, an 
interefting companion, and a loyal fubje&. 
He never encumbered the earth with heavy 
ftone mafles and clum{y edifices ; therefore 
our common mother will not be burthen- 
fome to him.—“¢ Sit illi terra lewis.’ f 
EE 
MEMOIRS Of BARON DIMSDALE, 
HOMAS Dimspate, Baron of the 
Ruffian Empire, was the fon of Jobn 
and Sufanna Dimfdale, and was born inthe 
parifh of Thoydon Garnon, near Epping, in 
the county of Efiex, on the 29th of May, 
His mother was daughter of Tho- 
mas Bowyer; of Albury Hall, in the parifh 
of Albury, in the county of Hertford. 
_ His grandfather, Robert Dimfdale, accom- 
panied William Penn to America, in 1684, 
and took with him his two fons, John and 
William ; but returning, after a refidence 
of a few years, he again fixed himfelf at 
Thoydon Garnon; and his eldef& fon John 
{ucceeded to him therein the practice of phy- 
iic, to which profeffion he had been edu- 
cated: his fecond fon William was efta- 
blifhed in the fame line, at Bithop Stort- 
ford, inthe county of Hertford. 
His father, John Dimfdale, had cight 
children, four of whom, Mary, John, Wil- 
liam, and Calvert died very young; Su- 
fanna and Robert lived to a more ad- 
vanced age; but Thomas, who was the 
fixth, and Jofeph, who was the feventh 
child, were tht only part of the family 
who lived to a late period ; Jofeph dying, 
Account of Baron Dimfdale. 
Sir 
after a fhort ilinefs, on the 26:hof Apri, 
BAG ew | 
Thomas, the fubject of thefe Memoirs, 
having paffed through his {chool-educa- 
tion, returned to improve himflf a few 
years/under his father; and was fent af- 
terwards to St. Thomas’s Hofpital, in the 
Borough of Southwark, to be inftruted 
as afurseon. He was firft placed under 
Mr. Symonds, who dying, hecontinued the 
remainder of his time under Mr. Girle. 
He was greatly refpected by both of thofe 
gentlemen, for his clofe application in the 
profecution of his fludiesj and he com- 
menced the praétice of his profeffion. at 
Hertford, about the’yéar 1734. In 1739, 
he married the only daughter of Nathaniel 
Brafley, of Roxford, near Hertford, who 
was an eminent banker in London; and 
was elected member for tnat borough in 
four fucceffive parliaments. 
He continued diligently to purfue his 
profeffion with increa‘ng reputation. In 
1744, he had the misfortune to lofe his 
wife, who died, not leaving any chil- 
dren. Zhe bik : 
. Inthe following year, 1748, to relieve 
himfelf under this weighty affliction, his 
active mind, and his zeal for the fuccefs 
of the army, commanded at that time in 
the North by the Duke of Cumberland, 
led him to offer his fervices as a volunteer, 
and at his own expence to affift the phyfi- 
cians and furgeons of the army, wherever 
he could be moft ulefully employed ; and 
he received letters of recommendation to’ 
the Duke and others: he continued with 
that army until after the furrender of Car- 
lifle, then in poffeffion of therebels ; after 
which he again took up his refidence at 
Hertford, and he received the Duke’s 
thanks for thofe fervices. 
In 174.6, he marricd Anne Iles, a rela- 
tion to his former wife. The ample fortune 
he already poffeffed, with the addition he 
acquired by this marriage, and by the 
death of Lady Dimfdale, widow of Sir 
John Dimfdale, of Hertford, induced him 
to retive from the prattice of his profeffion 
for fome years: however, as his family 
became numerous, having had ten chil- 
‘dren, feven of whom were fiill-living, he 
felt it a duty towards them, to return again 
to more active life, and he took his degree 
as a phyficianin 1761: ~ 
Tn a few years, he heard, with others, of 
the extraordinary fuccefs of what was cal- 
led the new method of treating perfons ill 
of the finall-pox, more particularly of pa- 
tients under inoculation; and with great 
afliduity he made inquiry into the truth 
of the many imprabable reports that were 
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