In the latter end of the year 1751, Dr. Rotheram's health, which had received a severe shock from some very heavy family afflictions, began rapidly to decline. In the following spring, as soon as the season would permit, he undertook a journey to Hexham, in Northumberland, where his eldest son was then settled as a physician; and his friends were not without all hope that he might be restored to his former strength and usefulness. But his disorder returning, he died there on the 8th of June, 1752. He was interred in the Abbey Church of Hexham, where a mural monument bears the following inscription to his memory:—
To the Memory of
Caleb Rotheram, late of Kendal, D. D.
Who successfully united
The force of Genius and Industry
In the Cause of
Religion, Truth, and Liberty.
The Holy Scriptures
Were his favourite Study,
The Doctrine which he taught
And the Rule of his Life.
With ardent Piety,
Extensive Knowledge,
Unlimited Benevolence,
And Rational Affection,
He adorned the characters
Of Minister, Tutor, Parent, and Friend.
He died June VIII, Mdcclii.
Aged LVIII.
Dr. Rotheram left three sons, of whom the eldest, as abovementioned, was a physician, first at Hexham, afterwards at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was a man of high character and reputation in
