_Edward Rigby_, _M.D._, was born at Chawbent, in Lancashire, December
9th, 1749. He was under the tuition of Dr. Priestley until he was
fourteen, when he was apprenticed to Mr. David Martineau of this city.
In 1805 he was elected mayor, and died Oct. 27th, 1822. In August, 1818,
the corporation voted him and his lady a piece of plate of the value of
twenty-five guineas, as a memento of the memorable birth of their four
children at one time, and the event was recorded in the city books. Two
of the children lived to be nearly twelve weeks old, and the other two
not quite seven weeks.
_William Saint_, one of the mathematical masters of the Royal Military
Academy, at Woolwich, was a native of St. Mary’s Coslany. He wrote the
“Life of Fransham,” and was a contributor to the “Lady’s Diary.” He died
July 9th, 1819.
_George Sandby_, _D.D._, chancellor of the diocese of Norwich, personally
presided in the consistorial court of the Lord Bishop of Norwich for
nearly thirty years, during the whole of which time no decree of his was
reversed by a superior court. He died March 17th, 1807, aged ninety-one.
_William Say_, an eminent mezzotinto engraver, was born at Lakenham in
1768.
_Frank Sayers_, _M.D._, an eminent physician and literary character, who
for many years resided in this city, was born in London, March 3rd, 1763.
He was the author of “Dramatic Sketches of the Ancient Northern
Mythology,” “Poems,” “Disquisitious, Metaphysical and Literary,” “Nugæ
Poeticæ,” and “Miscellanies, Antiquarian and Historical.” He died August
16th, 1817, and a mural monument is erected to his memory in the
Cathedral, with a Latin inscription by the Rev. F. Howes. His works were
collected and edited by the late William Taylor of this city.
_Sir James Edward Smith_, _M.D._, _F.R.S._, president of the Linnæan
Society, London, and of the Norwich Museum, and member of several foreign
academies, was born in St. Peter’s Mancroft, December 2nd, 1759. He
received his education here, and graduated as a physician at Leyden, in
1786. He assisted materially in the establishment of the Linnæan
Society, in 1788, of which he was the first president, and he continued
to preside over the society until his death, March 15th, 1828. He was
the author of several admirable botanical works.
_William Stevenson_, _F.S.A._, who was for many years proprietor of the
“Norfolk Chronicle,” and who edited a new edition of “Bentham’s History
of Ely Cathedral,” was born at East Retford, in 1750, and died at his
house in Surrey Street in this city, May 13th, 1821, aged seventy-one.
He was, in the early part of his life, an artist of no mean pretension;
and was esteemed an antiquarian and numismatist of considerable knowledge
and research.
_John Taylor_, _D.D._, was a native of Lancaster. He came to Norwich in
1733, and was a minister to the Presbyterian dissenters in 1757. He was
the author of several theological works, and died at Warrington, March
5th, 1761, aged sixty-six.
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