DCL of Oxford in 1855, president of the Royal Society in 1858 and subsequently, the first president of the General Medical Council. In 1858 Henry Gray dedicated his work Gray's Anatomy to Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie. Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie died of a shoulder tumour in Broome Park, Surrey at the age of 79. His collected works, with autobiography, were published in 1865 under the editorship of Charles Hawkins. (Timothy Holmes wrote a 255-page biography Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1898).) In 1816 Brodie had married Anne Sellon, daughter of an eminent lawyer and they had several children of whom three survived into maturity. His eldest son was the Oxford chemist Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet. References Bibliography 1783 births 1862 deaths People from Wiltshire British surgeons English surgeons Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the Royal Society Presidents of the Royal Society Recipients of the Copley Medal Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom 18th-century British medical doctors 19th-century British medical doctors People educated at Charterhouse School British physiologists Chairs of the General Medical Council