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 Mons. Barberiac. He excelled in anatomy, and took his medical degree at the age of twenty-one. He was then sent by his father to Paris to gain experience in the hospitals, and there he staid until the Revocation. Happily he had the opportunity of quietly removing to Amsterdam from Paris in the company of some German noblemen. He was made physician to the Prince of Orange, whom he accompanied into England. Marshal Schomberg solicited of King William the favour that Dr. Silvestre might accompany him to Ireland, which was agreed to; and to Ireland he went. How ever, having neglected to obtain a military commission, he found himself adrift after the Duke of Schomberg’s death. His Dutch pension he retained, and being known to the Duke of Montague, he was attached to the household of the Prince of Valdee. He obtained an extensive private practice in London, having been admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians on 26th June 1693. It is stated that he was also commissioner of the sick and hurt. To the latter duke he dedicated St. Evremond’s collected works, in the publication of which he was associated with Des Maizeaux in 1703. He died 16th April 1718. He had no heirs, but Sir John Baptist Silvester, lent, M.D. (died 1789), was his nephew. A son of the latter became, in 18 15, Sir John Silvester, bart, Recorder of the City of London (died 1822); the baronetcy expired in 1828 in the person of Captain Sir Philip Carteret Silvester, Bart., C.B., R.N.

4. The greatest medical surname belonging to the refugees is. Gaston Martineau, maitre-chirurgeon, son of Elié Martineau and Marguerite Barbesson, was a refugee from Dieppe in 1685; in the same ship was another refugee, Marie Pierre. To her he was married in 1693, their annonces being published at the City of London FVench Church, Threadneedle Street, on September 3, and the wedding being in the French Church of Spitalfields on the 26th. They settled at Norwich in 1695. Their son, David Martineau, surgeon, married Elizabeth Finch, and died 29th May 1729, aged thirty-two, leaving two daughters and one son, the second David Martineau, surgeon (born 1726, died 1768); the latter, by Sarah Meadows, his wife, had five sons — Philip Meadows Martineau (born 1750), surgeon, David (born 1754), Peter Finch (born 1755), John (born 1758), and Thomas (born 1764, died 1826). The fourth of these, John Martineau of Stamford Hill, Middlesex, was the father of Joseph Martineau of Basing Park, Hants, who married, in 1823, Caroline, daughter of Dr. Parry of Bath. The Martineaus are now considerable, both in numbers and in reputation, and all descend from the five sons of the second David Martineau. The public, however, divide them into two branches, the Church of England and the Unitarian. A good representative of the former was Rev. Arthur Martineau, M.A., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Rector of St. Mildred’s, 1864; Prebendary of St. Paul’s, 1866; Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury (Tait), 1869, who died in 1872, aged sixty-five; he was the author of “Church History in England from the earliest times to the period of the Reformation,” London, 1853; at that date he was Vicar of Whitkirk, near Leeds, and Rural Dean. The well-known representative of the latter communion is the Rev. James Martineau, D.D., born in 1805; his sister was the celebrated authoress, Harriet Martineau, born at Norwich in 1802, died at Ambleside, in the Lake district, in 1876. The two latter were children of Thomas, manufacturer of bombazine and camlet, the fifth of the second David’s sons; and Harriet’s eldest brother was Thomas Martineau, surgeon in Norwich, born in 1795, “a man of qualifications so high as to promise to sustain the honour of his name and profession in the old city,” but who died before the age of thirty. Philip Meadows Martineau, already named, “was considered the most eminent provincial surgeon of his day;” he was baptized at Norwich on 28th November 1752, and died in 1828, the last survivor of a succession of surgeons that had continued for above 130 years. There is a separate memoir of him, with his portrait as the frontispiece of the volume.

5. Dr. , of Waterford, was a son of Henri De Renet, a Huguenot landed proprietor in Vivarais in Languedoc. Five sons became refugees, of whom the youngest, Gabriel, turned Roman Catholic, and got back the estate; two went to the Cape of Good Hope, and from their vineyards came a wine called Graf de Renêt; and two remained in Ireland, one of whom was Jacques. His fame as a physician reached Dublin, aad he received an offer from that capital of £200 a-year for life if he would accept the charge of their greatest hospital. His refusal was regarded as a great compliment at Waterford, and he received the freedom of that city for himself and his heirs for ever, and also (tradition says) more substantial rewards. The Parish Register contains, under date 23rd July 1719, the marriage, in Doctor Reynette’s house, of Captain John Ramsay and Miss Charlotte Reynette; but too soon after there is this entry:— “Jan. 23rd 1720. Doctor James Reynette