Background
He was born in London, the son of George Manitoba Burrows, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and his wife Sophia (née Druce) Burrows.
He was born in London, the son of George Manitoba Burrows, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and his wife Sophia (née Druce) Burrows.
He went to school in Ealing and studied at Street Bartholomew"s Hospital before going up to Caius College, Cambridge in 1820 where he was elected a fellow of his College after taking his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1825. A year later he graduated as Bachelor of Medicine and resumed his medical studies at Saint Bartholomew’son
He was appointed joint lecturer on medical jurisprudence at Saint Bartholomew’s in 1932. In 1834 he was made assistant physician and in 1836 joint lecturer on medicine. In 1841 he was promoted to be full physician, an office which he held for twenty-two years, and became sole lecturer on medicine.
He was also physician to Christ’s Hospital for many years.
He was appointed Physician-Extraordinary to the Queen in 1870 and Physician-in-Ordinary three years later. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1832 and delivered the Goulstonian Lectures in 1834, the Croonian Lecture in 1835-1836 and the Lumleian Lectures in 1843-1844.
He was elected to serve as President of the college from 1871 to 1876. He was also President of the British Medical Association in 1862.
He wrote a book on The Disorders of the Cerebral Circulation (1846).
He died in 1887 at Cavendish Square, London, and was buried at Highgate.
Royal Society.