AGED DOCTOR’S MEMORY

Evening Star, Issue 19952, 23 August 1928, Page 5

AGED DOCTOR’S MEMORY

HIS 1,500 LECTURES WITHOUT NOTES. A lecture ■'!, winch the combined ages of the chairman and lecturer totalled 173 years has just been given at Hornsey Rise, North London. The chairman was Hr Walson Suit, J.P., who is in his 93rd year, and the lecturer Dr George Duncan, aged 85. a Ilaplist pa«* tor and an authority on theological liter*ture. In spite of their remm liable ag<’-«. neither chairman nor lecturer were aid'd by a single note, ami both .-.poke whh great fluency. Dr Duncan has what is probably the most extraordinary collection of lectures in the world, numbering over 2,00), any one of which, he claims, he can deliver from memory at a lew moments notice. FOUR SERMONS A DAY. Ho has 56 discourses on the subject of Eve, 14 on ‘The Tongues of Hen,’ and over 80 on Monnonism. “ I have just, given rny 1,500Ui pnblio address, and never onco have I used a. note.” Dr Duncan told a Tress representative. Once I have composed a lecture or read anything I find it harder to torget it than (o remember it. I still frequently preach four times on a Sunday. During tbo day Dr Duncan _ works at Foyle's boot shop, in Charing Cross road, where he is bead of the tlieologic.il department. , , Anything you want to know about tbo name or author o: a book Dr Duncan can tell S' oll - , A doctor went into the shop recently and asked for a book, giving as Hie only clue to the title the fact that be knew it dealt with will-power and he associated it with fish. , , Immediately Dr Duncan banned him a book called ‘Haddoc on the Will'-—and it was the volume required.