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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Caleb Rotheram, D. D. (search)
an extensive plan of study at the University of Aberdeen. How long he remained here we are not enabled to ascertain, as he does not appear to have become a regular member of the university, but merely to have taken up his residence in its vicinity as a private student, attending such lectures as he thought proper. He had here also the advantage of cultivating the society of many eminent persons who at that time gave a more than ordinary lustre to this seat of learning: among the rest, Dr. T. Blackwell, Dr. G. Turnbull, Dr. Reid, Messrs. Duncan and David Fordyce, and Mrs. Cockburne, well known as an able defender of the metaphysical principles of Locke and Clarke. On his return from Aberdeen, Mr. Aikin became for a short time an assistant to his former friend and tutor, Dr. Doddridge; agreeably to the practice which that eminent man was accustomed to pursue in the conduct of his academy, by engaging in succession for several years such students as had particularly distinguished th