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.
born c.1535 ; ed. Eton Coll. and King’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.scholar 13 Aug 1550 ; BA 1554/5 ; MA 1558 ; BD 1569 ; Fellow, King’s Coll. 1553-64 ; ordained deacon 18 Oct 1561 (London) ; University Preacher, Cambridge 1562 ; Rector of Dunton Waylett, Essex, from 18 Apr 1564 ; Head Master, Westminster School Jan 1565 – Mar 1568/9 ; Prebendary of Westminster from 20 Apr 1566, Sub-Dean ; Rector of St.Leonard, Foster Lane, London 11 Jul 1567-74 ; Rector of Chelsea, Middlesex, from 7 Jun 1574 ; his play, Thebais, A Tragedy, probably translated from Seneca, is supposed to have been written for performance at Cambridge in the late 1550s or early 1560s, but no text of it survives; author, several occasional poems ; m. ; d. 2 May 1585. Buried South Cloister, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
BROWNE, THOMAS; b.; adm. 17 Sep 1776.
Browne, Wallis Cazalet, son of Edward William Browne, of South Kensington; b. April 23, 1887; adm. April 26, 1901 (R); left Easter 1904.
Browne, Walter Stephen Wilfrid; b. May 9, 1877; adm. May 8, 1891 (G); lqt Dec. 1892; 2nd Lieut. Liverpool Regt. (from Militia) Dec. 9, 1899; Lieut. July 21, 1900; Capt. Dec. 9, 1908, Indian Army Feb. 29, 1912; Major Sept. 1, 1915; Lieut.-Col. (Brevet) Jan. 1, 1919 (subst.), July 25, 1923; was employed with the West African Frontier Force, Feb. 21, 1903 - June 24, 1904.