Felix Warden Brown Explained

Felix Warden Brown
Birth Date:10 April 1908
Birth Place:Heaton Chapel, Lancashire, England
Nationality:British
Field:Psychiatry
Work Institutions:Guy's Hospital
Charing Cross Hospital
Royal Free Hospital

Felix Warden Brown FRCP FRCPsych (10 April 1908–10 June 1972) was a prominent British psychiatrist specialising in child, family and adolescent psychiatry.[1]

Biography

Born in Heaton Chapel, Lancashire, on 10 June 1908, Felix Warden Brown was educated at Bedford School, at Keble College, Oxford, at the Royal London Hospital, where he qualified in Medicine in 1932, and at Johns Hopkins University, where he trained in psychiatry under Adolf Meyer.[2] He began working at Guy's Hospital in 1936, and subsequently worked at the Charing Cross Hospital, before becoming Consultant Physician at the Royal Free Hospital. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1968.[3]

Married to the actress Eileen Way, Brown died on 10 June 1972.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Obituary, British Medical Journal, No.3, 1972, p. 55
  2. Obituary, The Lancet, No. 1, 1972, p. 1403
  3. http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/590 Munks Roll Details for Felix Warden Brown
  4. Obituary, The Times, 17 June 1972