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Authorised form of nameCrichton-Browne; Sir; James (1840 - 1938)
Other forms of nameJames Crichton-
Other forms of surnameBrowne
Dates1840 - 1938
NationalityBritish
Place of birthEdinburgh, Scotland
Date of birth29 November 1840
Place of deathDumfries
Date of death31/01/1938
ActivityEducation:
Dumfries; Trinity College, Glenalmond; Edinburgh University; Paris. MD (1862, Edinburgh); LLD (St Andrew's); DSc (1909, Leeds)
Career:
Lord Chancellor's Visitor of Lunatics (1875-1922); Vice President and Treasurer, Royal Institution; one of the last people to wear Dundreary whiskers
Honours:
Kt 1886
Memberships:
MRCSE (1861); FRSE
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/06/1883
RelationshipsSon of Dr W A J Browne, Commissioner in Lunacy, Scotland.
Married: 1) Emily, daughter of Dr Halliday (she died 1903); 2 (1912) Audrey Emioy, daughter of General Sir E Bulwer
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1936-1938 vol 2 pp 519-521, plate, by G M Holmes
References:
David Millett, 'Illustrating a Revolution: An Unrecognized Contribution to the "Golden Era" of Cerebral Localization' in NR 1998 vol 52 pp 283-305
CodeNA7144
Archives associated with this Fellow
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NLB/2/252Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir James Crichton-Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society13 March 1888
NLB/2/616Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir James Crichton-Browne, [Fellow of the Royal Society]28 September 1888
NLB/4/922Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Creighton [Crichton-Browne]29 November 1890
NLB/11/665Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons5 September 1895
NLB/16/513Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to J Crichton-Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society23 April 1898
NLB/13/551Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Fellow of the Royal Society6 October 1892
NLB/14/36Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society14 December 1896
NLB/14/706Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir James Chrichton-Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society30 April 1897
NLB/15/490Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir James Crichton-Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society13 October 1897
NLB/15/459Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir James Crichton-Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society7 October 1897
NLB/15/497Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir James Chrichton-Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society15 October 1897
NLB/19/665Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir James Crichton-Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society 20 November 1899
IM/000615Crichton Browne, Sir James1922
NLB/19/62Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir James Crichton-Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society9 June 1899
NLB/18/779Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr E Klein, 19 Earl's Court Square, S.W.11 May 1899
NLB/22/738Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir James Crichton Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society8 July 1901
NLB/30/799Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir James Chrichton-Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society25 May 1905
NLB/37/283Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir James Crichton Browne FRS25 February 1908
NLB/47/273 Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir James Crichton Browne FRS8 January 1913
NLB/47/316 Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir James Crichton-Browne FRS14 January 1912
MS/929/1/36Letter from James Crichton-Browne, FRS, Conservative Club, St. James's Street, to James Mackenzie Davidson9 May 1911
RR/13/105Referee's report by James Crichton-Browne , on a paper 'Phenomena resulting from interruption of afferent and efferent tracts of the cerebellum' by J A Risien Russell3 October 1896
NLB/55/529Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James Crichton-Browne, FRS17 May 1918
NLB/16/53Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor T Clifford Allbutt, Fellow of the Royal Society21 January 1898
NLB/2/247Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society10 March 1888
NLB/5/107Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir James Crichton-Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society, 7, Cumberland Terrace, Regents Park, N.W.20 March 1891
EC/1883/03Crichton-Browne, Sir James: certificate of election to the Royal Society
AP/73/8Paper, 'Preliminary communication on the nature of the contagium of Rinderpest' by Alexander Edington22 February 1897
AP/73/8/1Manuscript, 'Preliminary communication on the nature of the contagium of Rinderpest' by Alexander Edington22 February 1897
NLB/37/414Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir James Crichton Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society16 March 1908
NLB/37/521Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor [William Carmichael] McIntosh, Fellow of the Royal Society2 April 1908
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