Life

Bourne was born at Shrawley, Worcestershire, and educated at Bromsgrove

Bromsgrove

Bromsgrove is a town in Worcestershire, England. The town is about north east of Worcester and south west of Birmingham city centre. It had a population of 29,237 in 2001 with a small ethnic minority and is in Bromsgrove District.- History :Bromsgrove is first documented in the early 9th century...

. He was elected a scholar of Worcester College, Oxford

Worcester College, Oxford

Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in the eighteenth century, but its predecessor on the same site had been an institution of learning since the late thirteenth century...

, and became a Fellow of the college. He proceeded B.A. in 1781, M.A. in 1784, M.B. in 1786, and in 1787 took the degree of M.D. and was elected physician to the Radcliffe Infirmary

Radcliffe Infirmary

The Radcliffe Infirmary was a hospital in central Oxford, England, located at the southern end of Woodstock Road on the western side, backing onto Walton Street. The Radcliffe Infirmary, named after physician John Radcliffe, opened in 1770 and was Oxford's first hospital...

 at Oxford.

In 1790 he became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

Royal College of Physicians

The Royal College of Physicians of London was founded in 1518 as the College of Physicians by royal charter of King Henry VIII in 1518 - the first medical institution in England to receive a royal charter...

. In 1794 he was appointed reader of chemistry at Oxford. He was Harveian Orator in 1797. In 1803 he was the Aldrichian professor of physic, and in 1824 Lichfield professor of clinical medicine.

He died at Oxford on 23 December 1829. A monument was erected to him in the chapel of his college.

Works

His published works are:

• 'An Introductory Lecture to a Course of Chemistry,' 1797.
• 'Cases of Pulmonary Consumption treated with Uva ursi,' 1805.