Born in 1747, Dr. Gustavus Richard Brown, Jr. was a prominent physician throughout Maryland and parts of Virginia. He left Charles County for Scotland, to attend the University of Edinburgh. In 1768, Dr. Brown received a degree in medicine and returned to Charles County where he opened a practice in Nanjemoy.
An active patriot during the Revolutionary War, Brown tended to wounded troops and served as a member of the Committee of Correspondence in 1774. Dr. Brown was also a member of the Maryland State Convention in 1787 that ratified the Constitution of the United States. Dr. Brown was noted to have had an interest in education and helped found the Medical and Chirugical Faculty of Maryland in 1799. Dr. Brown is remembered for visiting the bedside of his close friend, President George Washington, during Washington’s last illness.
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