SIR HENRY HALFORD, BART., M.D., G.C.H. PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. MDCCCXXXV. ON THE DEATHS OF SOME EMINENT PERSONS GENTLEMEN, You heard me with so much patient attention when I read a paper lately on the deaths of some illustrious persons of antiquity, that I am tempted to solicit your indulgence, this evening, whilst I give an account of the deaths of some eminent characters of modern times. To begin, then, at the period when our College was first established and recognised, after the introduction of Grecian literature into England, by our founder, Linacre, in the reign of King Henry VIII. That Prince, when he ascended the throne at the |