| Authorised form of name | Brown; Edward (1644 - 1708); physician |
| Other forms of surname | Browne |
| Dates | 1644 - 1708 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Norwich, Norfolk, England, Europe |
| Date of birth | 1644 |
| Place of death | Northfleet, Kent, England, Europe |
| Date of death | 28 August 1708 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
Northfleet, Kent, England, Europe |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Activity | Education:
Norwich School; Trinity College, Cambridge (MB 1663); St Bartholomew's Hospital, London; Incorporated at Oxford (1666); Merton College, Oxford (DMed 1667); Incorporated at Cambridge (1670)
Career:
Practised dissection and studied botany in Norwich; travelled widely in Europe (c1668-1669 and 1673); practised in London; physician at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London (1682); physician-in-ordinary to Charles II
Memberships:
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1675, President 1704-1708)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/01/1668 |
| Proposer | William Croone |
| Royal Society activity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1679; 1683 |
| Other Royal Society activity | Frequent correspondent to Henry Oldenburg whilst on his travels (late 1660s) |
| Relationships | Parents: Sir Thomas Browne
Married: Henrietta Susanna Terne
Children: Thomas Browne (FRS 1699)
Additional relatives: father-in-law Christopher Terne (FRS 1663); son-in-law Owen Brigstocke (FRS 1710) |
| Published works | RCN: 30426
RCN: 30424
RCN: 30425 |
| General context | Brown ended up marrying Henrietta, daughter of his lecturer at St Bartholomew's Hospital, Dr Christopher Terne (FRS 1663). His notes to Terne's lecture were kept at the British Museum. His main work was his account of his journeys through Eastern Europe, and he also translated two 'lives' from Plutarch's work, Themistocles and Sertorius. |
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| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Venn; Foster; Hunter
Notes:
Altname from DNB and Venn |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/88813424 |
| Royal Society code | NA3343 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EL/B1/150 | Letter, from Edward Brown [to the Royal Society] | |
| EL/B1/138 | Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Palmanova, Friuli | 15 June 1669 |
| MS/390/55 | Bond of Edward Browne to the Treasurer of the Royal Society | 10 December 1674 |
| EL/B1/151 | Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg | 1673 |
| DM/5/101 | A list of benefactors to the Museum, to the value of £5 or upwards at one time | c.1737 |
| IM/000599 | Brown, Edward | nd |
| EL/B1/148 | Account of the silvermines at Schemnitz [Bansk tiavnica, Slovakia] by Edward Brown | 1669 |
| EL/B1/147 | Account of the coppermine at Herrngrundt [pania Dolina, Slovakia] by Edward Brown | March 1669 |
| EL/B1/146 | Account of the goldmine at Chremnitz by Edward Brown | March 1669 |
| EL/B1/142 | Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Norwich | 5 February 1669 |
| EL/B1/144 | Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg | February 1669 |
| EL/B1/134 | Letter, from Edward Brown to Thomas Brown, dated at Vienna | 3 March 1668 |
| EL/B1/152 | Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg | 30 May 1670 |
| EL/O1/105 | Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Edward Brown, dated at London | 1 March 1669 |
| EL/B1/149 | Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg | 21 March 1669 |
| EL/O1/109 | Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Edward Brown, dated at London | 19 March 1669 |
| EL/O2/5 | Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Edward Brown | 24 July 1669 |
| EL/O1/104 | Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Edward Brown, dated at London | 1 March 1669 |
| EL/B1/145 | Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Norwich | March 1669 |
| EL/O1/119a | Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Edward Brown, dated at London | 5 June 1669 |
| CLP/15i/34 | Paper, 'An account of the dissection of an oestridge [ostrich]' by Edward Brown | 1681 |
| EL/B1/143 | Letter, from Edward Brown, to Henry Oldenburg | 28 February 1669 |
| EL/B1/139 | Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Venice | 20 June 1669 |
| EL/B1/135 | Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Vienna | 20 April 1669 |
| EL/B1/136 | Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Carinthia, Austria | 31 May 1669 |
| EL/B1/131 | Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Vienna | 6 December 1668 |
| EL/B1/132 | Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Vienna | 4 February 1668 |
| EL/B1/133 | Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg , dated at Vienna | March 1669 |
| EL/B1/141 | Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Norwich | 26 November 1669 |