[Sir]. English physician, son of Dr. W. A. F. Browne, her Majesty’s commissioner in lunacy for Scotland; born at Edinburgh in 1840; was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond, Perthshire, at the University of Edinburgh, and at the medical schools of London and Paris. He was president of the Medico-Psychological Association, of the Neurological Society of London, and of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh; vice-president and treasurer of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, a fellow of the Royal Society, and lecturer in many north of England hospitals and asylums. As head of the West Riding Asylum in Yorkshire, he raised the institution to the highest state of efficiency and made it famous as a great medical school and place of original research, it being here that Professor David Ferrier made his discoveries as to the functions of the brain. He took great interest in the education of children, and has been instrumental in introducing many reforms of a beneficial nature. He received his knighthood in 1886.
