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Authorised form of nameBrown; Edward (1644 - 1708); physician
Other forms of surnameBrowne
Dates1644 - 1708
NationalityBritish
Place of birthNorwich, Norfolk, England, Europe
Date of birth1644
Place of deathNorthfleet, Kent, England, Europe
Date of death28 August 1708
Dates and placesBurial:
Northfleet, Kent, England, Europe
OccupationPhysician
ActivityEducation:
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)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/01/1668
ProposerWilliam Croone
Royal Society activityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1679; 1683
Other Royal Society activityFrequent correspondent to Henry Oldenburg whilst on his travels (late 1660s)
RelationshipsParents: 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 worksRCN: 30426
RCN: 30424
RCN: 30425
General contextBrown 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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SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Venn; Foster; Hunter
Notes:
Altname from DNB and Venn
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/88813424
Royal Society codeNA3343
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EL/B1/140List from Edward Brown to the Royal Society1669
EL/B1/150Letter, from Edward Brown [to the Royal Society]
EL/B1/138Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Palmanova, Friuli15 June 1669
MS/390/55Bond of Edward Browne to the Treasurer of the Royal Society10 December 1674
EL/B1/151Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg1673
DM/5/101A list of benefactors to the Museum, to the value of £5 or upwards at one time c.1737
IM/000599Brown, Edwardnd
EL/B1/148Account of the silvermines at Schemnitz [Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia] by Edward Brown1669
EL/B1/147Account of the coppermine at Herrngrundt [Špania Dolina, Slovakia] by Edward BrownMarch 1669
EL/B1/146Account of the goldmine at Chremnitz by Edward Brown March 1669
EL/B1/142Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Norwich5 February 1669
EL/B1/144Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry OldenburgFebruary 1669
EL/B1/134Letter, from Edward Brown to Thomas Brown, dated at Vienna3 March 1668
EL/B1/152Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg30 May 1670
EL/O1/105Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Edward Brown, dated at London1 March 1669
EL/B1/149Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg21 March 1669
EL/O1/109Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Edward Brown, dated at London19 March 1669
EL/O2/5Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Edward Brown24 July 1669
EL/O1/104Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Edward Brown, dated at London1 March 1669
EL/B1/145Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at NorwichMarch 1669
EL/O1/119aLetter, from Henry Oldenburg to Edward Brown, dated at London5 June 1669
CLP/15i/34Paper, 'An account of the dissection of an oestridge [ostrich]' by Edward Brown1681
EL/B1/143Letter, from Edward Brown, to Henry Oldenburg28 February 1669
EL/B1/139Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Venice20 June 1669
EL/B1/135Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Vienna20 April 1669
EL/B1/136Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Carinthia, Austria31 May 1669
EL/B1/131Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Vienna6 December 1668
EL/B1/132Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Vienna4 February 1668
EL/B1/133Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg , dated at ViennaMarch 1669
EL/B1/141Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Norwich26 November 1669
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