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Authorised form of name	Crichton-Browne; Sir; James (1840 - 1938); physician, psychiatrist, neurologist, and eugenicist
Other forms of name	James Crichton-
Other forms of surname	Browne
Dates	1840 - 1938
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Edinburgh, Scotland
Date of birth	29 November 1840
Place of death	Crindau, Dumfries, Scotland
Date of death	31/01/1938
Occupation	physician, psychiatrist, neurologist, and eugenicist
Research field	Public health
	Psychology
	Neurology
	Psychiatry
Activity	Education: Crichton Institution; Dumfries Academy, Dumfries; Trinity College, Glenalmond; Edinburgh University; Paris. MD (1862, Edinburgh); LLD (St Andrew's); DSc (1909, Leeds) Career: Assistant medical officer in various asylums in English provinces (1863-5); superintendent at the new borough asylum in Newcastle upon Tyne (1865); medical director at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum at Wakefield, Yorkshire (1867-1875); Lord Chancellor's Visitor of Lunatics (1875-1922). Honours: Kt 1886 Memberships: MRCSE (1861); FRSE; Eugenics Education Society (first President 1908); Royal Institution (VP and Treasurer); Edinburgh Phrenological Society.
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	07/06/1883
Age at election	43
Proposer	Allen Thomson
	Francis Galton
	Henry Charlton Bastian
	John Scott Burdon Sanderson
	Lyon Playfair
	John Russell Reynolds
	Alexander Tweedie
	Joseph Lister
	George John Romanes
	Edward Klein
	Lionel Smith Beale
	Thomas Lauder Brunton
	Joseph Fayrer
	St George Mivart
	Thomas Spencer Cobbold
	William Jenner
	David Ferrier
	John Hughlings Jackson
	James Risdon Bennett
	Charles Darwin
	John Charles Bucknill
Relationships	Parents: William Alexander Francis Browne (1805–1885), Commissioner in Lunacy, Scotland, and Magdalene Howden Balfour, daughter of Dr Andrew Balfour of Edinburgh. Spouse: 1) Emily, daughter of Dr Halliday (died 1903) (1865); 2 (1912) Audrey Emioy, daughter of General Sir E Bulwer. Children: 1) son and a daughter
PublishedWorks	RCN 30481 RCN 30482 RCN 30483 RCN 30484 RCN 30485 RCN 30486
OtherInfo	Remembered for the functional specialisation theory of the brain and cerebral asymmetry. Studied the relationship of mental illness to brain injury. Developed public health policies in relation to mental health. Forceful advocate of eugenics. Noted as one of the last people to wear Dundreary whiskers.
Royal Society Obituary or Memoir	Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
Source	Sources: 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
Code	NA7144

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
NLB/2/252	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir James Crichton-Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society	13 March 1888
NLB/2/616	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir James Crichton-Browne, [Fellow of the Royal Society]	28 September 1888
NLB/4/922	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Creighton [Crichton-Browne]	29 November 1890
NLB/11/665	Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	5 September 1895
NLB/16/513	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to J Crichton-Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society	23 April 1898
NLB/13/551	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Fellow of the Royal Society	6 October 1892
NLB/14/36	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society	14 December 1896
NLB/14/706	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir James Chrichton-Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society	30 April 1897
NLB/15/490	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir James Crichton-Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society	13 October 1897
NLB/15/459	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir James Crichton-Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society	7 October 1897
NLB/15/497	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir James Chrichton-Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society	15 October 1897
NLB/19/665	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir James Crichton-Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society	20 November 1899
IM/000615	Crichton Browne, Sir James	1922
NLB/19/62	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir James Crichton-Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society	9 June 1899
NLB/18/779	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr E Klein, 19 Earl's Court Square, S.W.	11 May 1899
NLB/22/738	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir James Crichton Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society	8 July 1901
NLB/30/799	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir James Chrichton-Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society	25 May 1905
NLB/37/283	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir James Crichton Browne FRS	25 February 1908
NLB/47/273	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir James Crichton Browne FRS	8 January 1913
NLB/47/316	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir James Crichton-Browne FRS	14 January 1912
MS/929/1/36	Letter from James Crichton-Browne, FRS, Conservative Club, St. James's Street, to James Mackenzie Davidson	9 May 1911
RR/13/105	Referee'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 Russell	3 October 1896
NLB/55/529	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James Crichton-Browne, FRS	17 May 1918
NLB/16/53	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor T Clifford Allbutt, Fellow of the Royal Society	21 January 1898
NLB/2/247	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society	10 March 1888
NLB/5/107	Copy 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/1883/03	Crichton-Browne, Sir James: certificate of election to the Royal Society
AP/73/8	Paper, 'Preliminary communication on the nature of the contagium of Rinderpest' by Alexander Edington	22 February 1897
AP/73/8/1	Manuscript, 'Preliminary communication on the nature of the contagium of Rinderpest' by Alexander Edington	22 February 1897
NLB/37/414	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir James Crichton Browne, Fellow of the Royal Society	16 March 1908
MC/23/64	Letter from James Crichton Browne, Crindau, Dumfries, to [Robert] Harrison, [The Royal Society]	13 March 1908
NLB/37/521	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor [William Carmichael] McIntosh, Fellow of the Royal Society	2 April 1908
ACS/1/1/85	Letter from James Crichton-Browne, Crindau, Dumfries, N. B., to [Alan Archibald] Campbell Swinton	7 January 1918
MC/28/29	Letter from James Crichton Browne, Crindau, Dumfries, N.B, to the [Royal Society]	23 December 1913
ACS/1/1/86	Letter from James Crichton-Browne, 45 Hans Place, S.W., to [Alan Archibald] Campbell Swinton	12 October 1914
MC/23	Volume 23 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1908

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