Essays on partial derangement of the mind in supposed connexion with religion / By the late John Cheyne ... With a portrait, and autobiographical sketch of the author.

  • John Cheyne
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1843
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Credit: Essays on partial derangement of the mind in supposed connexion with religion / By the late John Cheyne ... With a portrait, and autobiographical sketch of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    My father succeeded his uncle, John Cheyne, a kindred spirit, who had acquired the name of «the friend of the poor.” Of my great grand- father I know little, but that he and his family were devoted to the Stuarts, to whose agents they had lent considerable sums of money, which were never returned; and that his portrait by Sir John Medina still hangs in the hall of the College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, of which he was a member, as were also my father and grandfather. My mother was the daughter of Mr. William Edmonstone, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and of his wife Cecilia Bayne, sister to William Bayne, who was mortally wounded in Lord Rodney’s great battle, while in command of the Alfred seventy-four-gun ship, and was the senior of the three captains to whom a monu- ment was erected in Westminster Abbey. ‘This Cecilia Bayne was daughter of Alexander Bayne, Professor of Scots Law in the University of Edinburgh, whose life appears in the ‘* Penny Cyclopedia,” and who is noticed in D’Israeli’s
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