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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Caleb Rotheram, D. D. (search)
in a publication entitled the Protestant System, by his brotherin-law, Dr. Rose. In 1763, he superintended the publication of the first edition of Doddridge's Lectures, Dr. John Aikin, first classical, and afterwards for many years theological, tutor in the academy at Warrington, well deserves commemoration, as the person to whom that institution owed, if not its chief celebrity, its highest claims to distinction as a seminary of sound and useful learning. He was born in London, December 28, 1713. His father was a native of Kirkcudbright, in Scotland, who settled in London as a linen-draper, and married the daughter of a London citizen. Young Aikin was originally intended for his father's business, but was afterwards transferred to a merchant's counting-house as foreign clerk; in the exercise of which duty he acquired a thorough mastery of and facility in the French tongue, for which he was afterwards remarkable. Here, however, he cannot have remained for any great length of