International records / UK National Archives

Collection of Professor Alexander Brown

DEP/BRA | Brown was born in 1910 in Falkirk, Scotland and studied medicine at Edinburgh University where he graduated MB ChB with honours in 1933. He was appointed clinical tutor at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1943. He spent his war service at a specialist physician and a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He remained in the forces until 1947 during which time he visited Sierra Leone, making his first contact with West Africa. He arrived in Ibadan in June 1948 at the inception of the University College Ibadan, Nige…