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William Bromet
1783–1850
A London-born physician, traveler, and antiquary, he left behind lively travel writing as well as records of his wide-ranging historical interests. His best-known book, Peregrine in France, captures post-Napoleonic France in a chatty, observant style.
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William Bromet was a British physician and writer born in 1783 and deceased in 1850. He earned a medical degree at Edinburgh in 1809, became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1810, and served as surgeon to the 1st Life Guards.
Alongside medicine, he wrote and collected extensively. His best-known published work is Peregrine in France: A Lounger's Journal, in Familiar Letters to His Friend, a travel book that helped preserve his reputation as an engaging observer of people and places. Records from the Society of Antiquaries also show that he compiled topographical and antiquarian material, especially relating to Windsor and Berkshire, and that he was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Those surviving traces suggest a man with more than one calling: a doctor by profession, but also a curious traveler and local historian who liked to document the world around him. He died at Boulogne on June 7, 1850.