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JOHN AIKIN (1747-1822)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 437 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:AIKIN (1747-1822)  , See also:English See also:doctor and writer, was See also:born at Kibworth-See also:Harcourt, and received his elementary See also:education at the Noncomformist See also:academy at See also:Warrington, where his See also:father was See also:tutor . He studied See also:medicine in the university of See also:Edinburgh, and in See also:London under Dr See also:William See also:Hunter . He practised as a surgeon at See also:Chester and Warrington . Finally,he went to See also:Leyden, took the degree of M.D . (1780), and in 1784 established himself as a doctor in See also:Yarmouth . In 1792 he re-moved to London, where he practised as a consulting physician . But he concerned himself more with the advocacy of See also:liberty of See also:conscience than with his professional duties, and he began at an See also:early See also:period to devote himself to See also:literary pursuits . In See also:con-junction with his See also:sister, Mrs See also:Barbauld (q.v.), he published a popular See also:series of volumes entitled Evenings at See also:Home (6 vols., 1792-1795), excellently adapted for elementary See also:family See also:reading, which were translated into almost every See also:European See also:language . In 1798 Dr See also:Aikin retired from professional See also:life and devoted himself with See also:great See also:industry to various literary undertakings, among which his See also:General See also:Biography (to vols., 1799-1815) holds a conspicuous See also:place . Besides these, he published Biog . See also:Memoirs of Medicine (178o) ; Lives of See also:John See also:Selden and See also:Archbishop See also:Usher (1812) and other See also:works . He edited the Monthly See also:Magazine from 1796 to 1807, and conducted a See also:paper called the See also:Athenaeum from 1807 to 1809, when it was discontinued .

Aikin died in 1822 . His daughter, See also:

LucY AIKIN (1781-1864), born at Warrington on the 6th of See also:November 1781, had some repute as a See also:historical writer . After producing various books for the See also:young, and a novel, Lorimer (1814), she published in 1818 her Memoirs of the See also:Court of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth, which passed through several See also:editions . This was followed by Memoirs of the Court of See also:James I . (1822), Memoirs of the Court of See also:Charles I . (1833) and a Life of See also:Addison (1843) . See also:Miss Aikin died at See also:Hampstead, where she had lived for See also:forty years, on the 29th of See also:January 1864 . See a Memoir of John Aikin, with selections of his See also:miscellaneous pieces (1823), by his daughter; and the Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters of Lucy Aikin (1864), including her See also:correspondence (1826-1842) with William See also:Ellery See also:Channing, edited by P . H . Le See also:Breton .

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