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450 He was elected one of the physicians of the Pennsylvania Hospital soon after its establishment, and became the first Presi- dent of the College of Physicians. He was elected 14 Decem- ber, 1762, a Trustee of the Academy and College in the vacancy made by the death of Samuel M'Call jr. and was retired in 1791. He was an active member of the Second Presbyterian Church of which he was elected an elder in 1784. Having obtained a competency from his profession, he gave up its active practice in mid-life. His private life it is said was a picture of beauty, for he had a warm heart for all those connected with him by blood or affinity, possessed with much humility, and faithful in all his religious duties, was of good sense and learning, and much respected by all. In his older years he clung to the habits and the customs of former years, and a picture of him in the Ridg- way Library portrays him in his wig with more humor than truth ; and his quaintness was equalled by his sincerity. Of his marriage, his two sons died in infancy ; of his two daughters one married in 1770, Daniel Coxe, of New Jersey, a member of the Council of that Province, and who continuing an adherent of the Crown soon went to England, whither his wife and children followed him in 1785, and Dr. Redman did not see her again until her return to America in 1807 with her children. He did not long survive to enjoy this restored com- panionship of his sole surviving child, and died on 19 March, 1808. He had the satisfaction of seeing his grandson Dr. John Redman Coxe a Trustee of the University to which he was elected in 1806. ANDREW ELLIOT was the son of Sir Gilbert Elliot, Lord Jus- tice Clerk of Scotland, and the son-in-law of William Plumsted, a Trustee, but did not serve long, as he was commissioned, in January, 1764, Collector of Customs of New York, whither he removed ; and on 1 1 September following his trust was declared vacant, and Governor Penn was elected to succeed him. After the Revolution he left New York, and died at his place near Edinburgh, in 1787. It was in this month of September that Dr. Smith