Born on October 2nd, 1836, in the house in Preston (27 Winckley Square) where his father had practised and where he himself died. His father was Alderman Robert Brown (1801-1858), (qv), for thirty-five years a leading Preston practitioner. Robert Charles Brown was educated at Preston Grammar School

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he died at an early age on February 25th, 1868. At the time of his death he was Surgeon to the Royal General Dispensary in St Bartholomew's Close, and a member of the Pathological Society. He had previously been Surgeon to the Islington Dispensary and Ass