A memoir of the late Philip Meadows Martineau, surgeon.

Date:
1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A memoir of the late Philip Meadows Martineau, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    invited to Norwich during the jear 1733; and the Presbyterian congregation there had rebuilt for him, with much splendor, their meeting-house, which henceforth acquired, from its form, tlie name of the Octagon Chapel. A son of this eminent divine, by name Richard, had married the other sister of Mr. Philip Meadows; and thus the Doctor was become a sort of great-uncle to Philip Meadows Martineau; whom, to borrow his own expression, he received into the “covenant of grace,in the double capacity of pastor and kinsman. This baptism was administered on the twenty-eighth of November, 1752 ; and from the Doctor’s register it appears, that Mr. and Mrs. David Martineau then resided in Saint Saviour’s, in which parish consequently Mr. Martineau was born. The education of Mr. Martineau was natural, not solicitous. He spent his early years at home, and attended a day school, where he acquired the elements of English, writing and ciphering it is believed, under Mr. Pagan, a schoolmaster of the neighbourhood, and an Anglo-Saxon scholar ; for many rare books in that language preserve his signature, and must formerly have been in his possession. At w hat period young Martineau began French is not exactly certain : ])robably about 1763, as his father was anxious that he should cultivate a language so long hereditary in the family, and placed him for that purpose under the tuition of the