Records of the Miller Hospital and Royal Kent Dispensary / by John Poland.

  • Poland, John, 1855-1937.
Date:
1898
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Credit: Records of the Miller Hospital and Royal Kent Dispensary / by John Poland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    worker on behalf of its foundation and the one who ensured its permanent success by his powerful efforts in the pulpit and elsewhere, was an eloquent Scotch divine, the celebrated Dr. Colin Milne of botanical fame. The Rev. Dr. Colin Milne, Curate of this Parish (St. Nicholas, Deptford) for 40 years, was a Botanist of the first character. He published a Botanical Dictionary in 1788; (he was in early life Tutor to Lord Algernon Percy,) and dedi- cated it, by permission, to his Father, his Grace the Duke of Northumberland. His abilities as a Pulpit Orator are recorded in all the periodical works of the time in which he so repeatedly, with success, pleaded the cause of Charity in his capacity of Public Preacher. By his exertions the Kent Dispensary was founded. Excerpta Historica Deptfordiensis, June, 1843 (British Museum, Miscellaneoiis Papers relating to Dept- ford, 579, 1. 14). Dr. Milne died 2nd October, 1815, in his 72nd year. He was a native of Aberdeen, and besides the Botanical Dictionary just mentioned, which reached three editions, he published the Institutes of Botany (1770-72) and Indigenous Botany in conjunction with Alexander Gordon, M.D., of Aberdeen (1793), containing the result of several botanical excursions, chiefly in Kent,