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Brownrigg, as second baronet, 27th of May, 1833, and was living 
in 1850. I mention this family, because George Brownrigg of 
Ormathwaite married Mary Brownrigg, daughter of Henry Brown- 
rigg, Esq., of Wingfield, in Ireland. 
The Brownriggs always held a prominent position in the parish 
of Crosthwaite, and their names are found as taking part in all 
parochial business. 
In 1735 we find George Brownrigg one of the eighteen sworn 
men, governors of the ancient Free School; and in the year 1749 
we have J/r. George Brownrigg acting as foreman of the Trustees. 
In the year 1693, we have this remarkable combination of 
names, each acting as trustees of the Free School, viz., Thomas 
- Calvert, Daniel Stanger, and Francis Raisley. The only represent- 
ative of these three names now left in the parish is Mrs. Stanger 
of Fieldside. 
The last of the Brownriggs of Ormathwaite was William Brown- 
rigg, M.D., F.R.S., whose medical education commenced at 
London, where he attended medical lectures two years. He then 
proceeded to Leyden, and had the degree of Doctor of Medicine 
conferred upon him in 1737. He was born at Highclose Hall, in 
Cumberland, March 24th, 1711, and was therefore twenty-six 
years of age when he took his degree. To that university, which 
had obtained unrivalled celebrity, medical students generally 
resorted ; and from it they derived the greatest improvement and 
the highest honours in their profession. In this learned seminary, 
the doctor remained several years, and studied the theory and 
" practice of physic, anatomy, botany, and experimental philosophy, 
under the auspices of their respective most illustrious professors — 
_ Boerhaave, Albinus, Van Royen, and others. To these, his inti- 
mate friends and revered preceptors, he dedicated with affection 
_and respect his elaborate thesis, De Praxi Medica incunda; an 
enquiry well adapted to the situation of one who, conversant with 
the theory, was about to engage in the practice of medicine. 
As soon as Dr. Brownrigg had entered upon the practice of 
_ medicine at Whitehaven, he began with judgment and perseverance 
_ to put in execution the plan which he had laid down; and among 
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