...a celebrated anatomist and physician, was born 23d May 1718, in the county of Lanerk, in Scotland. At the age of fourteen, he was sent to the University of Glasgow, where he passed five years, and, by his good behaviour and diligence, acquired the esteem...

...Calderwood in the parish of Kilbride, Lanarkshire, the patri. •monial estate of his father, in May 1718. At the age of fourteen he was sent to the University of Glasgow, where he prosecuted a general line of study, being originally destined for the church. dy...

...1718, at Kilbride, in the county of Lanark in Scotland, where his father possessed a small estate. At the age of fourteen he was sent to the university of Glasgow as a student of divinity ; hut in the course of his academical education having become dissatisfied...

...circumstances. It was necessary that he should be educated for some profession ; and that of the law was selected by his relations. At the age of fourteen,...father's house, and declaring his intention to follow the pro* fession of arms. He was to have joined a reinforcement of troops, which sailed from Naples to...

...his amiable disposition, though the weakness of his frame hindered him from joining in their sports. At the age of fourteen he was sent to the University of Glasgow, from which, at the end of three years, he was removed to Baliol College, Oxford, in order...

...his amiable disposition, though the weakness of his frame hindered him from joining in their sports. At the age of fourteen he was sent to the University of Glasgow, from which, at the end of three years, he was removed to Baliol College, Oxford, in order...

...his amiable disposition, though the weakness of his frame hindered him from joining in their sports. At the age of fourteen he was sent to the University of Glasgow, from which, at the end of three years, he was removed to Baliol College, Oxford, in order...

...his amiable disposition, though the weakness of his frame hindered him from joining in their sports. At the age of fourteen he was sent to the University of Glasgow, from which, at the end of three years, he was removed to Baliol College, Oxford, in order...

...who were both, in somewhat different ways, persons of remarkable intellectual gifts and cultivation. At the age of fourteen he was sent to the University of Glasgow, where his father and his eldest brother had been befors him, and where he graduated MA, receiving...

...of Thirkisson, in Leicestershire So rapid was his progress in learning, at the county schools, that, at the age of fourteen, he was sent to the University of Cambridge. None could excel him in attachment to school-divinity, in his superstition, or in the bitterness...