John Collis Browne

Dr. John Collis Browne MRCS (1819–1884) was a British Army officer, inventor of items for yachts and the originator of the medicine Chlorodyne.

Serving as surgeon with the 98th Regiment of Foot in India in 1848, Browne developed Chlorodyne for use during an outbreak of cholera.

[1] In 1856 he left the army and went into partnership with John Thistlewood Davenport, a chemist, then at 33 Great Russell Street, to whom he assigned the sole right to manufacture and market 'Brown's Cough Bottle'.

Upon Browne's death plans were made by Messrs Davenport to erect a plaque in his memory on the house where he had lived.

The plaque was designed by the lettering craftsman William Sharpington[2] and unveiled by the Mayor of Ramsgate on 8 May 1973.