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From this time onwards Sir George Burrows's career was one of 

 constantly increasing success and professional distinction. It may, be 

 indicated by the offices to which lie was appointed. 



At the College of Physicians he was Gulstonian Lecturer in 

 1834; Croonian in 1835 and 1836; Lumleian in 1843 and 1844; 

 Censor in 1839-40-43 and -46 ; Councillor for five periods of three 

 years between 1838 and 1870 ; President from 1871 to 1875. In the 

 General Medical Council he represented the College, and was one of 

 the Treasurers from 1860 to 1863, and was President from 1864 to 

 1869. 



In the Hospital he became in 1834 sole Lecturer on Forensic 

 Medicine, in 1836 joint Lecturer on Medicine with Dr. Latham, 

 in 1841 sole Lecturer and full Physician, — appointments which he 

 held till 1863, when, on his retirement, he was elected Consulting 

 Physician. 



In 1870 he was appointed Physician- Extraordinary to the Queen ; 

 in 1873, Physician-in-Ordinary. In 1874 he was made a Baronet. 



He was President of the Medico- Chirurgical Society in 1869-71 ; 

 President of the British Medical Association in 1862 ; was elected 

 a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1847, and Honorary LL.D. of Cam- 

 bridge and D.C.L. of Oxford, a Member of the Senate of the 

 University of London, and an Honorary Fellow of Caius College, 

 Cambridge. He was a very active member, as his father had been, 

 of the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical 

 Men, and was for many years its President, as he was also of the 

 British Medical Benevolent Fund. 



This brief and swift recital of the appointments which Sir George 

 feurrows filled may tell the general character of his professional 

 life, and may be sufficient evidence of the esteem with which he was 

 always regarded, and of the assurance that was felt that, whatever 

 duties were assigned to him, he would do them well. All the high 

 offices, all the honours conferred on him, seemed to come quite natu- 

 rally and of course ; he never asked for one, or did anything on purpose 

 to obtain one ; bis having them excited neither jealousy nor surprise ; 

 and herein may be at once the explanation and the chief lesson of 

 his life. He had excellent mental power. He showed it in his 

 University career, and always afterwards ; but that which was yet 

 more admirable and characteristic was his steadfast, resolute use of 

 his power straight to the work he had to do. More enthusiasm or 

 more enterprise might have made him a more impressive or more 

 popular teacher, might have made him more keen in research, more 

 successful in acquiring new knowledge ; but they might not have 

 added to the general utility or the good influence of the long life 

 which he spent in learning and teaching what seemed directly useful, 

 in treating disease in the methods generally regarded as the best, and 



