Born 14 September 1862, the fourth child and third son of D Brown, of Harrow Park, and his wife Anna Maria Charlotte Wright. He was educated at Harrow and at University College Hospital, where he was Filliter exhibitioner and Atchison scholar. He was a contemporary and life-long friend of John Rose Bradford, afterwards PRCP, William Bayliss, afterwards FRS, and Raymond Johnson, FRCS. He qualified with first-class honours in 1887, winning a gold medal in physiology, took the doctorate the next year, and the Fellowship in 1889. He served the hospital as house surgeon, house physician (1881) to Sydney Ringer, the greatest authority of the day on therapeutics, and obstetric assistant. The honorary staff of the hospital was at that time of exceptional brilliance, and included Marcus Beck, Rickman Godlee, and Victor Horsley as surgeons; Sydney Ringer, William Gowers, and Thomas Barlow as physicians; Burdon Sanderson, Sharpey-Schafer, and Ray Lankester among the teachers in the medical school; while Lister, a former student of the hospital, was a frequent visitor from King's College. Schafer used many of Brown's drawings in his textbook of *Histology*. Brown as house physician administered the anaesthetic when Godlee successfully operated for the first time upon an abscess in the temporo-sphenoidal lobe of the left cerebral hemisphere, which had been exactly diagnosed by Gowers. After a period as house physician at the General Hospital, Wolverhampton, Brown settled in practice at Ipswich, in partnership with G H Hetherington, and in succession to J H Bartlett. In June 1897 he was appointed surgeon to the Ipswich and East Suffolk hospital, and became consulting surgeon on his retirement in 1922. He was secretary of the section of surgery at the Ipswich meeting of the British Medical Association in 1900, represented his division at the Exeter meeting in 1907, and was president of the Suffolk branch in 1927-28. He practised at 3 Museum Street, Ipswich. During the war of 1914-18 he had charge of the military beds at the main hospital and its two auxiliaries; he was awarded the OBE for his war service. Brown married in 1892 Florence Martha Dehane Matthews. Their two sons died before him, but he was survived by his two daughters, Lady Strettell and Miss E A D Brown. After retirement he lived at 16 Offington Drive, Worthing, Sussex, where he died on 2 February 1948, aged 85. Brown was an old-fashioned English gentleman, forceful and pugnacious in appearance and character. Publication:- University College Hospital and Sir William Gowers. A letter of reminiscence. *Brit med J*. 1945, 1, 645.