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Sir George Buckston Browne
Sir George Buckston Browne FRCS
Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (FRCS) is a professional qualification to practise as a senior surgeon in Ireland or the United Kingdom. It is bestowed on an intercollegiate basis by the four Royal Colleges of Surgeons (the Royal ...
(13 April 1850 – 19 January 1945) was a British surgeon 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-tract system and the reproductive org ...
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Browne was born in Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...
, 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 naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended ...
's former home Down House 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 but beyond the London urban sprawl. Downe is south west of Orpington and south east of Charing Cross. Downe lies on a hill, and ...
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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