Brodie

Brodie, SIR BENJAMIN COLLINS, Bart., surgeon, was born at Winterslow Rectory, Wiltshire, in 1783. He studied under Sir Everard Home at St George's Hospital, to which he was in 1808 elected assistant-surgeon, and afterwards surgeon. He had previously lectured both on anatomy and on surgery. In 1810 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1811 received their Copley medal. In 1834 he was created a baronet, and he held the appointment of serjeant-surgeon to Queen Victoria. He was made D.C.L. of Oxford in 1850; was president of the Royal Society, a corresponding member of the Institute of France, and a foreign member of other learned societies and academies in Europe and America. Among his works were: Lectures on Local Nervous Affections (1837), Introductory Discourse on the Duties and Conduct of Medical Students (1843), Psychological Inquiries as to Mental Faculties (1854); and an Autobiography, forming part of the collected edition of his works (1865). He died at Broome Park, Surrey, 21st October 1862.—His son, Sir B. C. BRODIE, born in 1817, was in 1855 appointed professor of Chemistry at Oxford. He was the discoverer of graphitic acid. He died 24th November 1880.