John Cordy Burrows

[1] He was educated at the Ipswich School, but, left at an early age to become an apprentice to the surgeon Mr. William Jeffreson in Framlingham, with whom he diligently applied himself to his profession.

The high esteem in which he was held by the inhabitants of Brighton was evinced on 13 October 1871 by the presentation of a costly testimonial consisting of a handsome carriage and a pair of horses, and other gifts.

In consequence of a petition to the crown, asking that his great services to Brighton might receive public recognition, he was knighted by the queen at Osborne on 5 February 1873.

He was a fellow of the Linnean, Zoological, Geographical, and other learned societies, brigade surgeon of the Brighton artillery corps, and chairman of the lifeboat committee.

His statue, erected in the grounds of the Royal Pavilion, was unveiled on 14 February 1878; it was moved to the south end of Old Steine in 1984, and was listed at Grade II in 1999.

[2] He married, 19 October 1842, Jane, daughter of Arthur Dendy of Dorking; she died in 1877, leaving one son, William Seymour Burrows, who succeeded to his father's practice.