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BROWNE, LYDE, brother of Barwell Browne (qv); b.; adm. 11 Jan 1768; left 1775; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 Nov 1775, aged 16; Cornet, 3rd Dragoons, 11 Jun 1777; Lieut., 25 Apr 1781; Capt., 20th Light Dragoons, half pay, 1783; 40th Foot, 30 May 1794; Brevet Maj., 1 Mar 1794; Maj., 4th West Indian Regt., 18 Jan 1797; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 1 Jan 1798; Maj., 90th Foot, 11 Jul 1798; Lieut. -Col., 35th Foot, 30 May 1800; 85th Foot, 10 Apr 1801; 21st Foot, 25 Jun 1802; m. 5 Feb 1799 Dorothy, dau. of Stephen Riou, and sister of Capt. Edward Riou RN; killed in the streets of Dublin by Emmett’s mob 23 Jul 1803. DNB.

BROWNE, MACKLEY, son of Mackley Browne, Parliament Street, Westminster, parliamentary agent, and Charlotte --- (IGI); b. 6 Oct 1822; adm. 27 Jan 1831; parliamentary agent, firm Mackley Browne & Son, Westminster, to 1864; m. (by 1851) Eliza Williams. [Perhaps son of John Mackley Browne (above)]

BROWNE, MONTAGUE STEPNEY, brother of Sir John Edmond de Beauvoir, Bart. (qv); b.; adm. 23 Jul 1807; left 1813; adm. King’s Inns, Dublin, 1815, called to bar 1820; adm. Inner Temple 1817; d. 1835.

BROWNE, PHILIP AUGUSTUS, only son of Augustus Browne (qv); b. 13 Aug 1805; adm. (G) 21 Jun 1819; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford, matr. 3 Dec 1825; BA 1829; MA 1833; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 17 Jan 1831; gold and silver refiner; of Devonshire Place, London, and Sutton Place, near Guildford, Surrey; m. 2 Jun 1831 Caroline Jessintha, dau. of Sir Charles Henry Rich, Bart.; d. 5 Jan 1883.

BROWNE, PHILIP CHETWODE, son of Philip Augustus Browne (qv); b. 3 Mar 1837; adm. (G) 30 May 1850; Cornet, 1st Dragoon Guards, 21 Dec 1860; Lieut., 29 Jul 1862; Capt., 11 Nov 1864; retd. 13 Jun 1868.

BROWNE, ROBERT, son of Robert Browne, Wacton, Norfolk, Rouge Croix Pursuivant; bapt. 25 Feb 1615/6; at school under Osbaldeston three years (J. Venn, Biog. Hist. Gonville and Caius Coll., i, 320); Gomville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 23 Apr 1636; BA 1640, a grace being passed 27 Mar 1640 to admit him to his degree, “regiis negotiis necessario detentus”; entered College of Heralds; Blanch Lyon Pursuivant 1640, Blue Mantle Pusuivant 1641-6; according to Noble, Browne was “the only pursuivant who remained steady in his duty to his royal master when the sword was drawn”; m.; buried St. Benet’s Paul’s Wharf, London, 14 Oct 1646.

BROWNE, RUPERT, eldest son of Rupert Browne, Greenford, Middlesex, and his cousin Sylvia, only child of Rupert Browne, Greenford, barrister; bapt. 18 Mar 1713/4; adm. (aged 10) Oct 1724; in school list 1729; New Coll. Oxford, matr. 6 Jul 1731; adm. Inner Temple 1731; not mentioned in mother’s will 1751.

BROWNE, ST. JOHN, brother of Thomas Adderley Browne (qv); b.; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1762; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1766, adm. pens. 28 May 1766, scholar 15 May 1767, matr. Mich. 1769; BA 1770; adm. Inner Temple year 1766-7; ordained deacon 21 Sep 1770, priest 29 Sep 1770 (both Cork); Curate, Rincurran, co. Cork, 1772, Murragh, co. Cork, 1774; removed to diocese of Canterbury, 1774; Chaplain, EICS Madras; arrived in India Aug 1775; found guilty of homicide by misadventure by a jury in Madras, following the death of one of his servants from a twenty-foot fall while in fear of punishment from him; about to leave Madras for England Feb 1776.

BROWNE, THOMAS ADDERLEY, eldest son of Rev. St. John Browne DD, Kinsale, co. Cork, Prebendary of Cork and Chancellor of Ross, and his first wife Amelia, dau. of Edward St. George, Kinsale, co. Cork; nephew of Jemmett Browne (adm. 1715, qv); b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1760; KS 1761; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 11 May 1763; BCL 1770; adm. Inner Temple year 1762-3; ordained deacon (Oxford) 21 May 1769, priest (Cork) 21 Sep 1770; Curate, Kinsale, co. Cork, 1770, Vicar 1771-80; Chancellor of Ross from 29 Apr 1774; Vicar Choral of Tuam 9 Oct 1780-8; Incumbent of Rincurran, co. Cork, from 1788; m. Ann, dau. of Col. Henry Reddish; d. Jan 1798.

BROWNE, THOMAS GUNTER, second son of Thomas Gunter Browne, St. John’s, Antigua, and Ann, dau. of William Dickinson, Antigua; b. 3 Nov 1756; adm. 17 Jan 1770; KS 1771; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1775, adm. pens. 15 Jun 1775, scholar 26 Apr 1776, did not matr.; Cornet, 3rd Dragoons, 24 Nov 1777; Lieut., 37th Foot 28 Mar 1778; Capt., 102nd Foot, 9 Oct 1781; 60th Foot, 24 Oct 1781; half-pay from 1783; subsequently resided in France; author, Hermes Unmasked, 1795; d. 1834.