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Sandford memorable." A fellow student of Browne's in 

 the humanity class was William Thomson, now Lord Kelvin. 

 On September 28, 1840, Browne entered as a medical student at 

 King's College, London, and in due course, after serving for a 

 year as the resident physician's assistant, was admitted M.R.C.S. 

 Eng., in 1844. He took the M.D. of London University in 

 1848. During those days he enjoyed the friendship of George 

 Johnson, afterwards Sir George Johnson, a celebrated physician. 

 Meanwhile he had left the Wesleyan denomination on doctrinal 

 grounds, and had become a member of the Congregational or 

 Lidependent body of Nonconformists, to which he remained 

 attached for the rest of his life, eventually becoming a member 

 of the congregation worshipping in Rusholme Road Chapel, 

 Manchester, of which the late Dr. Alexander Thomson was for 

 so many years the pastor. It was in 1845, prior to taking his 

 doctor's degree, that Browne settled in Manchester, where he 

 was appointed Lecturer on Forensic Medicine in the Pine Street 

 ^' Royal Medical and Surgical School.'' He immediately asso- 

 ciated himself with the general intellectual life of the city, 

 purchasing a share in the Portico, Mosley Street, and being 

 elected a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical 

 Society on January 27, 1846. Though he never served as an 

 officer or member of the Council of the Society, or contributed 

 to its Proceedings or Memoirs, he continued a loyal member and 

 subscriber to its funds until his death — a period of 56 years. 

 In 1846 he was elected Physician to the Chorlton-on-Medlock 

 Dispensary. On May 16, 1849, he married Annie, the second 

 daughter of George Had field, a well-known Manchester solicitor, 

 who for many years represented Sheffield in Parliament ; and by 

 her he had six children, one of whom, Henry, died in infancy, 

 the rest, a son and four daughters, surviving him. Of these 

 survivors one is Mr. George Buckston Browne, a London 

 surgeon (the fourth generation in the medical profession), and 

 another became Mrs. James Watts. In 1849 Dr. Browne was 

 appointed Lecturer in Medicine at the Manchester School, and 

 in August, 1853, he was appointed Physician to the Manchester 



