Dr. Rotheram was far from being a mere theologian. His attainments as a man of general science are understood to have been very considerable; and he enjoyed a high reputation as a teacher both of theoretical and of practical mathematics. His eminence in this particular department caused the academy at Kendal to be eagerly resorted to, not only by students for the ministry, but by many who were afterwards to fill various stations in civil and active life. And he not only instructed his pupils in the theory of mathematics and natural philosophy, but possessed a happy talent of illustrating them with great success by means of an extensive, and for that time a well. constructed, apparatus.
As a minister (says Mr. Daye, in his funeral sermon for Dr. R.), his abilities were great; his delivery graceful; his performances instructive, lively, and entertaining; his sentiments nervous; his arguments strong, his expression just. With these talents, together with great moderation, impartiality, and calmness of judgment, he became not only a popular preacher, but was equally applauded by the most judicious. As a tutor, his capacity was equal to his department. His public spirit, desirous to propagate useful knowledge, and his tender concern for the interest of young persons, inclined him to take on himself the direction of youthful studies, for which he was excellently well qualified, and therefore encouraged by great and good men, and chosen as the means of carrying on their worthy design of enlarging useful knowledge, and propagating rational and religious light among men. He was
