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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.