Sir Walter Langdon-Brown (13 August 1870 – 3 October 1946) was a British medical doctor and writer.

Biography

He was born in

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, the son of the Rev. John Brown of Bunyan's Chapel, Bedford and his wife, Ada Haydon Ford (1837–1929). His mother was a niece of

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, describer of Down syndrome. His sister was Florence Ada Keynes, the social reformer, wife of

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and mother of

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(see

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). He was educated at

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and St. John's College, Cambridge. He served as an army doctor in the

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and

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. He worked at

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with

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, and later at the

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, London. He was the author of a number of medical textbooks, a lecturer at the

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, and went on to become Regius Professor of Physic at the

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. He was knighted on his retirement in 1935. The Langdon-Brown lectureship at the Royal College of Physicians was founded in his memory in 1950 by a gift from his second wife, Lady Freda Langdon-Brown.

Selected publications

''The Practitioner's Encyclopaedia of Medical Treatment''
(with J. Keogh Murphy, 1915)
''Physiological Principles in Treatment''
(1915)
''The Sympathetic Nervous System in Disease''
(1920)

References

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Langdon-Brown, Walter 1870 births 1946 deaths 20th-century English medical doctors Regius Professors of Physic (Cambridge) Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Knights Bachelor People educated at Bedford School Presidents of the History of Medicine Society