Charles Bree who was at that time a doctor practising in Stowmarket bought some land in Stowupland. This land he left in his will to his wife Francis Elizabeth. Bree turns out to be an intriguing character.
In April 1834 he took over the practice of J. F. Freeman in Stowmarket by arrangement with Freeman’s widow. The house he and his family lived in where he carried on his practice is now known as Strickland and what is now Stricklands Lane was known as Bree’s Lane later corrupted to Breeze Lane.
He originated from Ambleside in Cumberland, He received his medical education in York and then University College London. In his second year he went with other students to Warsaw returning via Berlin. His first practice was in Bildeston.

It was probably at this time he became acquainted was Reverend Professor Henslow of the neighbouring parish of Hitcham. He was related by marriage to the John Edgar Rust of Abbots Hall Stowmarket.

 He married in 1845, Frances Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Reverend Sir Augustus Henniker of Plashwood Haughley. While her father was away from home Bree met Frances in a carriage and drove to Bury making their way to Tintagel in Cornwell where they were married by Charles Bree’s brother Rev Robert Stapyldon Bree.

He left Stowmarket in 1858 going to Edinburgh to study for his MD.
He ran a Penny Club for the poor to enable them to afford medical treatment. Late he went to practice at Colchester Hospital then retired to Long Melford Suffolk.

He wrote a book the first to try to refute Darwin’s theory of evolution. Henslow had been Darwins tutor at Cambridge.

Obituary in British Medical journal
CHARLES ROBERT BREE, M. D. Edin., M. R. C. S. Eng., L. S. A., &c.
THE death of Dr. Bree, which occurred on October 17th, will be a source of great regret to a circle of friends, not only in his own district, but throughout the country. Dr. Bree was the eldest son of the late Mr. John Bree, of Keswick, Cumberland, by Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. J. Bearcroft, and was born at Ambleside on February 4th, 1811. He was, therefore, seventy-five years of age at his death. He married in 1845, Frances Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Sir Augustus Henniker, Bart., who survives him. Dr. Bree received his medical education in York, from whence he proceeded to London, and was a pupil at University College during 1829 and 1830.

At the end of his second year he joined a party of fellow-students and entered the Polish service, where he remained till Warsaw was taken by the Russians in 1831. After spending a short time in Berlin, he returned to England to commence practice at Bildeston, in Suffolk. In 1834 he removed to the neighbouring town of Stowmarket, where he remained until 1858, in which year he gave up practice and went to Edinburgh, where he studied for one year and took his M.D. degree at the University. In the autumn, of 1859 he was elected physician to the Essex and Colchester Hospital, and continued for twenty-two years physician to that institution. Dr. Bree was also a naturalist of no mean order. Among his well-known books on natural history are “The History of Birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles,” and “Popular Illustrations of the Lower Forms of Life.” Dr. Bree was also joint-editor with the Rev. F. 0. Mortis of the Naturalist. He was a Fellow of the Liannaan and Zoological Societies and a J. P. for Essex and Suffolk. Dr. Bree was a staunch Whig and an ardent politician. {From Neil Langridge, 2024}