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AIKIN, JOHN (1747-1822)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 437 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
AIKIN, JOHN (1747-1822) , English
doctor
  and writer, was born at Kibworth-Harcourt, and received his elementary education at the Noncomformist academy at Warrington, where his father was tutor. He studied medicine in the university of Edinburgh, and in London under Dr William Hunter. He practised as a surgeon at Chester and Warrington. Finally,he went to Leyden, took the degree of M.D. (1780), and in 1784 established himself as a
doctor
  in Yarmouth. In 1792 he re-moved to London, where he practised as a consulting physician. But he concerned himself more with the advocacy of liberty of conscience than with his professional duties, and he began at an early period to devote himself to literary pursuits. In con-junction with his sister, Mrs Barbauld (q.v.), he published a popular
series
  of volumes entitled Evenings at Home (6 vols., 1792-1795), excellently adapted for elementary family reading, which were translated into almost every European language. In 1798 Dr
Aikin
  retired from professional life and devoted himself with great industry to various literary undertakings, among which his General Biography (to vols., 1799-1815) holds a conspicuous place. Besides these, he published Biog. Memoirs of Medicine (178o) ; Lives of John Selden and Archbishop Usher (1812) and other works. He edited the Monthly Magazine from 1796 to 1807, and conducted a
paper
  called the
Athenaeum
  from 1807 to 1809, when it was discontinued.
Aikin
  died in 1822.
His daughter, LucY AIKIN (1781-1864), born at Warrington on the 6th of November 1781, had some repute as a historical writer. After producing various books for the
young
 , and a novel, Lorimer (1814), she published in 1818 her Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, which passed through several editions. This was followed by Memoirs of the Court of James I. (1822), Memoirs of the Court of Charles I. (1833) and a Life of
Addison
  (1843). Miss Aikin died at
Hampstead
 , where she had lived for
forty
  years, on the 29th of January 1864.
See a Memoir of John Aikin, with selections of his miscellaneous pieces (1823), by his daughter; and the Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters of Lucy Aikin (1864), including her correspondence (1826-1842) with William Ellery Channing, edited by P. H. Le
Breton
 .


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