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Royal Infirmary, a post to the duties of which he very diligently 

 attended until 1878, when, being 60 years of age, he resigned it 

 in accordance with the rules of the institution, and was appointed 

 Consulting Physician. Throughout his life in Manchester he 

 was a devoted supporter of the City Mission, and from its first 

 establishment was a warm friend of the Hospital for Incurables 

 at Mauldeth Hall — the former residence of the first Bishop of 

 Manchester, Dr. James Prince Lee. Dr. Browne became a 

 widower in 1864, and in 1868 he married Sophia Watson, of 

 London, who died in 1879. ^^ himself died peacefully of heart 

 failure on December 28, 1901, within a few weeks of the com- 

 pletion of his 84th year; and on December 31 he vvas interred 

 in the Hadfield Vault in Rusholme Road Cemetery, Manchester,, 

 where also lie the remains of his first and second wife, his infant 

 son, and those of Lydia, wife of George Hadfield, who died ia 

 1866, aged 80 years, and of George Hadfield, who died in 1879, 

 aged 91 years. 



Dr. Browne contributed little to medical literature. In 1857 

 he published a lecture " On the Laws of Health and their 

 Correspondence with Revealed Truth," in 1865 he contributed 

 to the British Medical Journal an article on " Oral, Gastric, and 

 Duodenal Dyspepsia," and in 1867 there appeared in the same 

 journal a paper from his pen on '• Positive Nosology." His 

 medical studies were devoted rather to the actual practice of his 

 profession, in which he was very actively engaged, and to 

 personal teaching, not only as a lecturer, but in conversation with 

 those who came under his professional treatment, or who were 

 admitted to his acquaintance, than to controversial exposition. 

 That he enjoyed teaching younger men was certain, and was 

 naively indicated on one occasion in his later years by the 

 remark that he would like to have been a Professor at the 

 Victoria University. Many of those who came under his 

 care, as pupils, or otherwise, have risen to positions of influence 

 or distinction and gratefully recognise the value of his teaching, 

 enhanced, as it was, by the pleasant frankness and charm of 

 his manner. One of the most eminent of these is Sir William 



