Patrick Browne

Patrick Browne (1720-1790), was an Irish physician and botanist.

Career
Browne was born in Woodstock, County Mayo, sent to relatives on Antigua in 1737 and returned to Europe due to ill health after two years. He studied medicine, natural history and especially botany at Reims, Paris and Leyden, qualifying in 1743. He worked as a physician at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, visited Barbados, Montserrat, Antigua and St. Kitts in the West Indies and settled as physician in Jamaica in in 1746.

He corresponded with the botanist Carl Linnaeus, among whose papers were found fragments of articles on venereal diseases and yaws by Browne.

His major work, 'The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica' (1756), illustrated by the botanic artist Georg Dionysius Ehret contains new names for 104 genera.

He retired to Rushbrook, near Claremorris, Co. Mayo in 1771.

External references

 * Princess Grace Irish Library Monaco
 * National Centre for Biotechnology Information,
 * Civil and Natural History of Jamaica,

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