Browne, James Crichton

Epithet: afterwards Crichton-Brown; MD

The Scottish physician and psychologist Sir James Crichton-Browne, son of Dr. W. A. F. Browne, Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland, was born in 1840. He was educated at Dumfries Academy, Trinity College, and Glenalmond, and he studied at Edinburgh University and in Paris, becoming a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1861 and obtaining his M.D. in 1862. Crichton-Browne was the Lord Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy, 1875 to 1922. He was also Vice-President and Treasurer of the Royal Institution from 1889. His published work includes Victorian jottings (1926), Stray leaves from the physician's portfolio (1927), What the doctor thought (1930), and The doctor remembers (1938). Crichton-Browne was knighted in 1886. Sir James Crichton-Browne died on 31 January 1938.