Charles Robert Bree (1811–86)

Medical practitioner and zoologist. Medical officer in the Polish army, 1831; qualified to practise medicine in Britain, 1833. MD, Edinburgh, 1859. General practitioner, Colchester, Essex, and physician, Essex and Colchester Hospital, 1860–82. Entomological editor of the Naturalist, 1858. Published articles critical of CD’s theory of the origin of species.