AIKIN, ARTHUR (_1 son of John Aikin, M.D. of Warrington, Lancs. 1747–1822 by Martha dau. of Arthur Jennings of Harlington, Bedford, she d. 1830 aged 83_). _b._ Warrington 19 May 1773; ed. there and at Palgrave in Norfolk; studied classics under Gilbert Wakefield, and chemistry under Dr. Priestley; settled in London 1796; one of the founders of Geological Society of London 1807, which was incorporated 23 Apl. 1823; one of the secretaries and a member of council; lecturer on chemistry at Guy’s hospital 1816–52; secretary of Society for encouragement of arts, manufactures and commerce 1817–40, where he read more than 40 lectures; chairman of its committee of chemistry 1840; the first treasurer of Chemical Society 30 March 1841; F.L.S. 1818; the first hon. sec. of Institution of Civil Engineers 2 Jany. 1818; one of specially selected members of the Athenæum club; much employed in drawing specifications of patents for improvements in chemical manufactures, in which Lord Lyndhurst held him to excel all other persons; made many chemical analyses for patentees and public companies; lived at 19 John st. Adelphi 1817–40; at 7 Bloomsbury sq. 1840 to death; edited _The annual review_ 1802–1806; author of _Journal of a tour through north Wales, and part of Shropshire_ 1797; _Manual of mineralogy_ 1814, _2 ed._ 1815. _d._ 7 Bloomsbury sq. London 15 April 1854. _J. Kendrick’s Profiles of Warrington worthies, 2 ed._ 1854, _portrait_; _European Mag. lxxv_, 387 (1819) _portrait_; _Proc. of Linnæan society, ii_, 304–306 (1855); _Minutes of proceedings of institution of civil engineers, xiv_, 120–23 (1855). AIKIN, LUCY (_only dau. of John Aikin, M.D. of Harrington 1747–1822_). _b._ Warrington 6 Nov. 1781; author of _Epistles on women, a poem_ 1810, _Lorimer, a tale_ 1814, _Memoirs of the court of Queen Elizabeth_, _2 vols._ 1818; _Memoirs of the court of King James I_, _2 vols._ 1822; _Memoirs of the court of King Charles I_, _2 vols._ 1833; _Life of Addison_ 1843; lived at Church row, Hampstead, June 1822 to 1830; at 18 Church row 1830–44; in London 1844–45; at Wimbledon 1845–50; at John st. Hampstead 1850 to death. _d._ Milford house, Hampstead 29 Jany. 1864. _bur._ near east end of old churchyard of Hampstead. _Memoirs, miscellanies and letters of the late Lucy Aikin, edited by P. H. Le Breton_ 1864; _J. Kendrick’s Profiles of Warrington worthies, 2 ed._ 1854, _portrait_. AIKMAN, JAMES. A bookseller in Edinburgh; author of _Poems, chiefly lyrical_ 1816; _An account of the tournament at Eglinton_ 1839; _The animal kingdom_ 1861; editor and proprietor of a weekly paper called _The Star_. _d._ Edinburgh 21 May 1860 aged 81.