Sir George Burrows, Bt, PRS, (28 November 1801 – 12 December 1887) was an English physician and President of the

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Early life

He was born in London, the son of George Man Burrows FRCP and his wife Sophia (née Druce) Burrows, and went to school in Ealing.

Career

He studied at

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before going up to

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in 1820 where he was elected a fellow of his college after taking his B.A. degree in 1825. A year later he graduated as M.B. and resumed his medical studies at St. Bartholomew's. He was appointed joint lecturer on medical jurisprudence at St. Bartholomew's in 1932. In 1834 he was made assistant physician and in 1836 joint lecturer on medicine. In 1841 he was promoted to be full physician, an office which he held for twenty-two years, and became sole lecturer on medicine. He was also physician to

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for many years. He was appointed Physician-Extraordinary to the Queen in 1870 and Physician-in-Ordinary three years later. He was elected a

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in 1832 and delivered the

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in 1834, the

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in 1835–36 and the

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in 1843–44. He was elected to serve as President of the college from 1871 to 1876. He was also President of the British Medical Association in 1862. He was elected as a member of the

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in 1873. He wrote a book on ''The Disorders of the Cerebral Circulation'' (1846). On 19 March 1874 he was created a

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, ''of

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, in the

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, and of Springfield, in the

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''.

Personal life

He married Elinor Abernethy in 1834 and had eight children, of whom five predeceased him. He died in 1887 at Cavendish Square, London, and was buried at

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. His title passed to his son Frederick Abernethy Burrows.

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