Educated at St George’s Hospital and at the Grosvenor Place School of Medicine, where he took an anatomical prize. He was a younger brother of Isaac Baker Brown (qv). Soon after qualifying he settled at St John’s Lodge, Kensal Green, where he practised for some thirty years. He was Medical Officer o

Second son among seven children of Alexander Maclise (or McLeisch, McLish, McLisse, McLise), a Scottish Highlander who was a private in the Elgin Fencibles; his regiment being stationed in Cork he set up as a tanner and shoemaker. On December 24th, 1797, he married Rebecca Buchanan, "daughter of Mrs