History of the Fife Pitcairns

460 THE FIFE PITCAIRNS.
ated in a mural tablet in the church of Hadham Magna,
Herts :—
Ea tfje JHematg of
David Pitcairn, M.D., F.S.A., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.,
who departed this life, April 17th, 1809,
aged 59 years.
His portrait by Hoppner was engraved by Bragg.
His portrait shows him to have been a handsome man,
with a peculiarly frank and open countenance. He
married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of William Al-
mack, and she bequeathed this picture to the College.
Mrs Pitcairn's will, nth of August 1837, says: "I
give and bequeath to the Royal College of Physicians in
London the portrait of my beloved husband, Dr David
Pitcairn, painted by Hoppner; also the portrait of Dr
William Pitcairn, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds ; and
the portrait of Dr Matthew Baillie, painted by Sir Thomas
Lawrence. I give and bequeath to Sir Ralph Anstruther,
Bart., my picture of his great-grandfather, Dr Archibald
Pitcairn, painted by Sir John Medina.
" I give to his brother, Hamilton Lloyd Anstruther,
Esq., my little silver cup, with the Greek motto, that
was his great-grandfather's, Dr Archibald Pitcairn."
Mrs Pitcairn at her death left her other property to
Sir John, George, and the Rev. Augustus Campbell, who
were Dr David Pitcairn's nephews.
Dr John Latham, M.D., in his book on gout and
rheumatism, states that David Pitcairn was the first to
discover that valvular disease of the heart was a frequent
result of rheumatic fever, and that he published his dis-
covery in his teaching at St Bartholomew's Hospital.
His young cousin, William Pitcairn, brother of Sir
James Pitcairn, to whom he had shown the greatest
kindness, was much attached to him, and was with him
when he died. He calls him his " dear Doctor, and
greatest benefactor in early life."
Dr Pitcairn had two or three country places : one was
at Hadham Magna, Herts, and one at Hawley, Kent. His