Presidential address to the Royal College of Physicians, April 13th, 1908 / by R. Douglas Powell, Bart.

  • Sir Richard Powell, 1st Baronet
Date:
1908
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    Oswald Browne was a man of high ideals and deep religious convictions, and, apart from the duties of his profession, he gave much of his spare time to pliilanthropic work in connection with the Anglican Church, of wliich he was a devoted adherent: he was also much interested in the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, and served on various hospital committees. He was a very well read man, of aisthetic and cultivated tastes, and a strong sense of humour; but he did not contribute to medical literature beyond the publication of some interesting lectures to nurses, '•' Some Thoughts about Nursing and On the Care of the Dying. He married, in 1890, the third daughter of the Eev. Canon Tinling, of Gloucester, and his wife survives him. There were no children, but he adopted from early infancy three orphan children of his wife's sister. The funeral service, which was attended by the President, Treasurer, Eegistrar, and other Officers and Fellows of the College, was held at St. Mary Magdalene, Munster Square, of which for many years and up to the time of his death he had been Churchwarden, It only remains for me to express the indebtedness of the College and my warmest thanks to the Censors, the Council, the Committee of Management, the Treasurer, the Librarian, and to the other ofticers of the College for their services in the past year, and most especially to the Eegistrar, to whose unceasing devotion to the interests of the College I would wish most earnestly to testify. I have done my best to attend all the various functions in which the Eoyal College of Physicians has been invited to take part, and have been invariably received with all the honour due to the College. If, on some occasions in our debates here, I have not felt in touch and sympathy with the views of the majority of the Fellows, I have at least endeavoured to hold the balance of discussion with an even hand, and I beg to acknowledge the courtesy which I have experienced from the College. ^ UNlVr jl^RAHV 1
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