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 PARRY. 277 sense, such a calmness of temper, and pliiloso- pliical firmness of mind, that I think he may safely be trusted to the direction of his own mind. Indeed, my dear sir, you have great reason to think yourself happy in him. His genius, his application, his disposition, all promise great things. I hope neither your expectation, nor mine, concerning him, will be disappointed." His person is also thus described in a letter, written at the same period: — "He is more than ordinarily tall for his years, and admirably well proportioned. In his air and deportment there is a gravity that, though he is not yet sixteen, he might very well pass for twenty. He is very fair, has regular fea- tures, and eyes the most penetrating, with an ex- pression of great sweetness." He continued at Warrington till 1773, in which year, having chosen the medical profession, he commenced his studies at Edinburgh. In the summer of 1775, he visited London, and during two years resided chiefly with the late Dr. Denman. He returned to Edinburgh in 1777, and graduated in the month of June, 1778, being then in his twenty-third year. As annual president, he was greatly instrumental in procuring a royal charter for the Medical Society, then recently instituted in that city. His correspondence, relative to this subject, with Dr. Robertson, the historian, and principal of the university, is still preserved. In October, 1778, Dr. Parry was united to Miss Rigby, to whom he had formed an early attach- ment at Warrington. This lady, the daughter of John Rigby, Esq., of Lancaster, was no less cele- brated for her beauty, than for her amiable dispo-