William Brownrigg

(1711-1800)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Brownrigg, William, 1712-1800 NRA: Brownrigg, William (1711-1800) Chemist DNB: Brownrigg, William (1711-1800), physician and chemist LBT ID: WiBrownr1800 VIAF ID: 5735749 LOC ID: n86004837	B/BAP: 1711-03 DIED: 1800-01-06
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Cumberland physician and chemist who built a laboratory and mineral museum at his villa near Keswick. He was an advocate of quarantine as a means of preventing the spread of sickness.
REFERENCES TO William Brownrigg: Lord Brougham to Samuel Rogers, [1850] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VII. 1847-50.