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MEAD. 167 citizen, Guy, to bequeath his fortune towards the foundation of the noble hospital which has ho- nourably consecrated his name. Mead was twice married : by his first wife, Ruth Marsh, he had eight children. One of his daughters was married to Sir Edward Wilmot, Bart., an eminent physician, who enjoyed the particular favour of George the Second and Third ; another became the wife of Dr. Frank Nicholls, who was the most distinguished anatomical teacher of his time, and was the inventer of cor- roded anatomical preparations : he was likewise physician to the king. Mead's second wife was Anne, the daughter of Sir Rowland Alston, Bart. Although his receipts were so considerable, and although two large fortunes were bequeathed to him, his benevolence, public spirit, and splendid mode of living, prevented him from leaving great wealth to his family. The physician who was the Mecaenas of his day, whose mansion was a grand museum, who kept a second table for his humbler dependents, and who was driven to his country house, near Windsor, by six horses, was not likely to amass wealth, — but he did better — he acted according to his conviction, that what he had gained from the pubHc could not be more worthily bestowed than in the advancement of the public mind ; and he truly fulfilled the inscription which he had chosen for his motto : Non sibi sed toti.