He was born in North Shields on 11 January 1873 the son of Martha (née Crighton) and Sir Byrom Bramwell.

[1] After graduation he began working at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary then moved to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in London.

In 1900 he settled in Edinburgh as a consultant and in 1902 moved to work in Leith Hospital as Assistant Physician.

A keen fly-fisher, he wrote many articles for the Fishing Gazette under the pseudonym "The Professor".

One daughter Margaret Claire Byrom Bramwell married Dr James Kirkwood Slater.