Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Burrows, George
BURROWS, Sir George, Bart., M.D., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., is a son of the late George Manns Burrows, M.D., F.R.C.P., and was educated at Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. as 10th Wrangler in 1825, being immediately afterwards elected Fellow and Mathematical Tutor of his college. He took the degree of M.B. in 1826, that of Licentiate in Medicine in 1829, and that of M.D. in 1831. In 1832 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, of which institution he afterwards became the President, being elected for the fifth time in March, 1875. He resigned the office of President in 1876. He held successively the Gulstonian, Croonian, and Lumleian lectureships; has been four times elected censor, and five times a member of the College Council; and was the representetive of the Royal College of Physicians in the General Medical Council of Great Britain, of which important body he was the President for five years. He is a member of the Senate of the University of London; and he was formerly President of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society. He obtained the appointment of Physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1834, long held the Lectureship on the Principles of Medicine in that medical school, and is consulting Physician to St. Bartholomews Hospital. In July, 1870, he was appointed one of the Physicians-Extraordinary, and in Nov., 1873, one of the Physicians in Ordinary, to Her Majesty the Queen. He was created a Baronet in Feb., 1874, on the recommendation of Mr. Gladstone, who desired to pay a compliment to the medical profession through one of its most distinguished members. Sir George Burrows contributed to the "Library of Medicine" the articles on "Hæmorrhage" and several papers on professional subjects to the Medical Gazette, Medical Times, and to "The Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society." He is the author of a learned work on "The Cerebral Circulation and the Connection of Diseases of the Heart and Brain." Sir George married a daughter of the celebrated John Abernethy. (She died March, 1882.)