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Nash in his 'History of Worcestershire' (i. 154) says that Mr. Gem of Birmingham is now lord of the Manor of Dodford [in Bromsgrove], where he has an estate of 160l. per ann." The son was bred in the house of William Philips, clerk, in the city of Worcester. Philips took the degree of B.A. of Oriel College, Oxford, in 1704; was Rector of All Saints, Worcester, from 1710 to 1715; Vicar of St. Peter's, Worcester, from the latter year until 1741; and Rector of Bromsgrove from 1741 to 1754. A contributor to The Monthly Magazine for 1821 (vol. li. pp. 138-9) supplies some interesting reminiscences of Gem under the title of Dr. Gom, but in the index the name is correctly given. He was not fond of the ordinary system of education, but sought the instruction "of a neighbouring gentleman characterized as a freethinker, who had in fact been obliged to leave the University of Cambridge (where he had graduated) for his openly-avowed penchant to Unitarianism." This preceptor put translations of the works of Helvetius and Rousseau into the youth's hands, which inspired him with the desire of reading them in their original language, and he learnt French. This introduction to the philosophical literature of France coloured the rest of his life. On 12 June, 1735, when aged 19, Gem was admitted pensioner at St. John's College, Cambridge, when Dr. Williams became his tutor and surety ('Admissions to St. John's, Pt. III., 1903, ed. Scott, p. 80); but he seems to have left without taking his degree. We shall probably not err in drawing the inference that he was not in sympathy with the system of instruction which was then imposed on youth at the University. His "fond parent" pointed out the study of the law as the most profitable for him, but he put the suggestion on one side, and studied French and physic together. had In 1741 there was published in London & little tract of 54 pages bearing the title of "An Account of the Remedy for the Stone lately published in England....extracted from the examinations of this remedy, given into the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, by M. Morand and M. Geoffroy. By Richard Gem of the University of Cambridge." This description shows that he was not at that time, when he was 25 years old, possessed of any medical degree, and I am not acquainted with the nature of his subsequent qualification. Probably it was from a foreign, if any, university. His name does not appear in Dr. Munk's volumes on the members of the London College of Physicians, nor does it occur, says Mr. Victor G. Plarr, librarian of the Royal College of Surgeons, "in our college books between the years 1745-83." Mr. Plarr therefore concludes that he was not a member of the old Corporation of Surgeons. It is stated in The Monthly Magazine that Gem was known to and noticed by the Earl of Hertford, who gave him permission to visit Paris and to enjoy the advantages of connexion with the embassy. Unless this were a temporary visit only the statement conflicts with that recorded by the first Earl of Malmesbury in his diary (November, 1796), after a call from Gem, em, that "he came to Paris in 1751 with Lord Albemarle." The Monthly Magazine anecdotist chronicles that Gem obtained through the favour of Lord Stormont the practice of the sick English at Paris. His professional income was large, his prescriptions were simple. The patient could even tell from them the nature of the |