William Browne (physician)

Sir William Browne FRS (1692 – 10 March 1774) was an English medical doctor.

[1] After graduating (1711 BA, 1714 MA, & 1716 license), he worked as a doctor in King's Lynn, Norfolk, for more than thirty years before moving to Bloomsbury, London, in 1749.

He died on 10 March 1774 and left money for a scholarship at Peterhouse and gold medals to be awarded for poetry in Greek and Latin to Cambridge students (the Sir Willam Browne's Medals).

[2][3] While Browne wrote various books, his most enduring work is an epigram on why George I donated the library of the Bishop of Ely to Cambridge University and not to Oxford University:[2] The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For tories own no argument but force; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For whigs allow no force but argument.

They had one daughter Mary (1730–1773), who was the second wife of William Folkes (1700–1773), a barrister.