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an affectionate remembrance of his reputation for gentleness, 

 patience, and skill, for a peculiarly sympathetic and refined 

 simplicity of character, and for unwearying ministration to the 

 wants of the sick poor of the district in which he lived. In the 

 days of his professional activity his name was a household word 

 amongst the latter class ; the curious visitor to his grave will find 

 a noteworthy illustration of this fact in the tombstone record of 

 the interment there, nearly forty years ago, of Annie, " wife of 

 Dr. Browne," no more precise indication of the good Doctor's 

 individuality being considered necessary at that time. 



Henry Browne was born on February 13, 1818, and was the 

 second son of George Buckston Browne, of Myrtle Grove, 

 Halifax, in the County of Yorkshire, a gentleman of independent 

 fortune, who had also, however, studied medicine, and was fully 

 qualified for practice. The father of Henry was the only child 

 of a George Buckston Browne, of whom it is recorded that he 

 was a most successful medical practitioner in Manchester. In 

 Mrs. Raffald's "Directory of Manchester," published in 1772, a 

 Dr. Brown is mentioned as a physician at the Manchester 

 Infirmary ; the name, as printed, lacks the final letter, but that 

 is not sufificient reason for dismissing the speculation that 

 Henry's grandfather may have occupied the post from which the 

 grandson retired about a century later. At the age of fifteen 

 Henry Browne became a pupil of Dr. Tate, then head-master of 

 Richmond Grammar School, in Yorkshire, and subsequently a 

 Residentiary Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. While a 

 pupil at the Richmond School, the youth, during a summer 

 holiday, came under the influence of the religious teaching of 

 the VVesleyan denomination, and it is said that this fact caused 

 him to choose the University of Glasgow for his further studies, 

 instead of proceeding to Trinity College, Cambridge, as originally 

 proposed by his father. At Glasgow, he graduated B.A. in 

 1839, and on April 29, 1840, was "capped on the black- 

 stone " as M. A. In his diary is the followmg entry : — " The 

 memories of Professor Thompson, and especially of Professor 

 Nicholl, are very dear, as well as the funeral of Sir D. K. 



