James William Brown

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James William Brown
Born(1897-01-28)28 January 1897
Gloucester
Died10 September 1958(1958-09-10) (aged 61)
Mount Vernon Hospital,[1] Northwood, London
Occupationcardiologist
Known forCongenital Heart Disease (1939); 2nd edition (1950)[2]

James William Brown FRCP (1897–1958) was an English physician, pathologist, and cardiologist.[3]

As a Quaker educated at the Society of Friends School at Sidcot, he served with a Friends Ambulance Unit in France from 1916 to 1919, and was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1917 for evacuating six wounded soldiers under heavy fire.[2]

After demobilisation he entered the Middlesex Hospital Medical School and qualified MRCS, LRCP in 1923. He graduated MB BS (Lond.) in 1924 and MD (Lond.) in 1928.[1] In 1924 he joined the general practice of Joshua Williamson (b. 1874), who was a general practitioner and also held an appointment as honorary surgeon to Grimsby Hospital.[2][4] At the Grimsby Hospital, Brown became honorary pathologist and then honorary physician.[2] He qualified MRCP in 1930 and was elected FRCP in 1942. He was a general practitioner, in partnership with Williamson (who became his father-in-law), at Cleethorpes from 1924 to 1931 and at Grimsby from 1931 to 1938.[1] In 1938 he abandoned general practice[2] to become a consultant physician, and later cardiologist, to the Grimsby Hospital and the Scunthorpe General Hospital.

In 1930 he joined David Clark Muir in running a paediatric heart clinic at Hull. The clinic developed into a referral centre for congenital heart disease.[5] Brown wrote with Evan Bedford the section on congenital heart disease in volume 6 of the British Encyclopaedia of Medical Practice (1937, London, Butterworth & Co., Ltd.). Brown's book Congenital Heart Disease (1939) was of some importance in the development of cardiac surgery. In 1943 he gave the Bradshaw Lecture. He was a member of the editorial board of the British Heart Journal.[2]

In Grimsby in 1925 Brown married Margaret J. Williamson. They had a son and a daughter.[2]

  1. ^ a b c "Obituary. J. W. Brown, M.D., F.R.C.P." Br Med J. 2 (5099): 802. 27 September 1958. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.5099.802. PMC 2026280. PMID 13572911.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "James William Brown". Munk's Roll, Volume V, Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Physicians.
  3. ^ Bedford, D. Evan; Muir, David Clark (April 1959). "James William Brown". Br Heart J. 21 (2): 284–288. doi:10.1136/hrt.21.2.284. PMC 1017581. PMID 13651518.
  4. ^ Registrar of Graduates, University of Manchester. 1908. pp. 389–390.
  5. ^ "David Clark Muir". Munk's Roll, Volume VII, Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Physicians.