Antiquity of the family of Dick

as
that period, in terms of the patent and
entail of that estate, the name and arms
of Dick. Very soon after the death of
his brother, he left Pemhrokshire, and
fixed his residence at the family seat of
Prestonfield, in Mid-Lothian, little more
than a mile from the city of Edinburgh.
Although lie now resolved to relinquish
medicine, as far as regarded pecuniary
views yet from inclination he still con-
tinued to cultivate it as a useful and
agreeable science. With this view he
supported a friendly and intimate cor-
respondence with the physicians of Edin-
burgh; and he soon distinguished him-
self by paying particular attention to the
business of the Royal College, in the
list of whose Members his name had
been enrolled at a very early period of
his life. In the year 1756, he was
unanimously chosen President of the
College; and as his fellow Members were
fulH convinced of his zeal, as well as of