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Corporation, and was residing at the Observatory, Southport, at the 

 time of his death. 



B. S. 



Sir George Burrows, who died December 12th, 1887, was born in 

 1801 in Bloomsbury Square. His father, Dr. George Man Burrows, a 

 member of a family of Kentish yeomen, who had lived for at least 

 two centuries at Chalk, near Gravesend, was at that time a general 

 practitioner, and one of the most energetic. His early education was 

 at a school of good renown at Ealing, kept by Dr. Nicholas ; and 

 among his teachers was Professor Huxley's father, to whose lessons 

 he ascribed the love of mathematics which led to much of his success 

 in later life. In 1819 and 1820, being destined for the medical pro- 

 fession, he attended Mr. Abernethy's lectures and dissected at St. Bar- 

 tholomew's Hospital, and attended the lectures of Brande and Faraday 

 at the Royal Institution. In 1821 his father determined to send him 

 to Edinburgh, that he might there take his doctor's degree, and the 

 day for his leaving London was fixed ; but, on the urgent advice of 

 Dr. Latham, who pointed out the far greater value of an English 

 degree to one who was to practise in London, the plan was changed, 

 and he went to Cambridge and entered at Caius College. 



There he worked hard, did well in the annual college examinations, 

 was active in athletics, a good rower and cricketer, but in social life 

 was deemed quiet and reserved. In 1825 he took his B.A. degree, 

 passing as tenth wrangler, and was soon after elected a Fellow of his 

 College. During his undergraduate time he had been appointed to a 

 Tancred Studentship, which involved the necessity of his taking the 

 M.B. within the year after the B.A. ; but he obtained some respite 

 from this rule, took pupils, was a junior mathematical lecturer, 

 studied what he could of medicine with the University professors, and 

 passed the M.B. examination at some time in 1826. Soon after this 

 he returned to St. Bartholomew's, was for twelve months one of 

 Lawrence's dressers, and was a constant worker with Latham and 

 Watson. Thus he went on till, having a good opportunity of travel- 

 ling, he visited and studied at the Universities of Paris and Pavia and 

 some of those in Germany. In 1829 he obtained at Cambridge a 

 licence to practise, and was admitted an inceptor candidate at the 

 College of Physicians. In 1831 he took his M.D., and was appointed 

 with Dr. Roupell to the Lecturership on Forensic Medicine, then first 

 instituted at St. Bartholomew's. In 1832 he was admitted a Fellow of 

 the College of Physicians, and was put in charge of wards prepared 

 for cholera patients in the epidemic of that year, the first time of its 

 occurrence in England. In 1834 he was appointed the first Assistant- 

 Physician, and took charge of medical out-patients, who were then, 

 for the first time, dealt with as a separate class. 



