year. He was born at Ballyvaughan Rector}/, Co. Clare, the only son of Richard St. John Brew, an officer who died at the early age of 27, and was educated at the medical schools of Dublin and at Edinburgh, where in 1884 he obtained his diplomas of L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., and L.M. Edin. After a short assistantship at Chesham, he practised in Birmingham, but moved to Chew Magna shortly after his marr...