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Sir George Buckston Browne
Sir George Buckston Browne FRCS
Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (FRCS) is a professional certification, professional qualification to practise as a senior surgeon in Republic of Ireland, Ireland or the United Kingdom. It is bestowed on an wikt:intercollegiate, ...
(13 April 1850 – 19 January 1945) was a British surgeon
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and pioneer urologist
Urology (from Greek οὖρον ''ouron'' "urine" and ''-logia'' "study of"), also known as genitourinary surgery, is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of the urinary system and the reproductive organs. Org ...
.
Browne was born in Manchester
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, the son of physician Dr. Henry Browne. He was educated at University College London
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.
In 1927, he bought Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English Natural history#Before 1900, naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all speci ...
's former home Down House
Down House is the former home of the English Natural history, naturalist Charles Darwin and his family. It was in this house and garden that Darwin worked on his theory of evolution by natural selection, which he had conceived in London befor ...
and founded the Buckston Brown Research Farm in Downe
Downe, formerly Down (), is a village in Greater London, England, located within the London Borough of Bromley, which formed part of the historical county of Kent until 1965, and is beyond London's contiguous urban area. Charles Darwin lived ...
in 1931. The Buckston Browne Prize is named for him.Dobson, J & Sir Cecil Wakeley (1957). ''Sir George Buckstone Browne'' E&S Livingstone Ltd, London.
He died at University College Hospital in London, aged 94.
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* 1850 births 1945 deaths Health professionals from Manchester British surgeons British urologists Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England Knights Bachelor Alumni of University College London {{UK-med-bio-stub