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attack, in the fifty-seventh year of his age, regretted by the entire body of the medical profession.
In his relations of husband and father, Mr. Aston Key’s conduct was peculiarly exemplary, and affectionate.
The past year has terminated the career, at the age of sixty-five, of Mr. Joun Goldwyer Andrews, who was the Senior Surgeon of the London Hospital, and a Member of the Court of Examiners of this College.
Thomas Morton was born, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, in 1813. While a boy, he was distinguished by great quickness of apprehension, by his intelligence, and by that peculiar kindness of heart, that so endeared him to his friends in later life.
At about fifteen years of age, he was articled to the house-surgeon of the Newcastle Infirmary, and during the period of his studentship he was frequently entrusted with the sole charge of the patients of the institution, consequent on the illness of his master, Mr. Church. He left Newcastle in the year 1832, with a well established reputation for superior acquirement, and entered University College as a student, where his talents and indefatigable industry obtained for him a renewed approbation, evidenced by his successful competition for various prizes awarded to his industry, by the College. The intervals of the sessions were devoted to anatomical and other pursuits, holding reference to his profession, in Paris; and each year contributed its quota to an increasing and well-earned reputation for professional acquirement; and throughout the whole of his career he was no less notorious
