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CodeDS/UK/161
Dates1840-1938
Person NameCrichton-Browne; Sir; James (1840-1938); knight, neurologist, Lord Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy
SurnameCrichton-Browne
ForenamesJames
PreTitleSir
Epithetknight, neurologist, Lord Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy
ActivityThe Scottish physician and psychologist, Sir James Crichton-Browne, was born in Dumfries in 1840. He was the son of Dr W. A. F. Browne, Physician Superintendent at Crichton Royal Institution and Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland. He was educated at Dumfries Academy, Trinity College, and Glenalmond, and he studied at Edinburgh University and in Paris, becoming a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1861 and obtaining his M.D. in 1862. Crichton-Browne was the Lord Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy, 1875 to 1922. He was also Vice-President and Treasurer of the Royal Institution from 1889 and was knighted in 1886. Sir James Crichton-Browne died in Dumfries on 31 January 1938.
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