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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; 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.

BROWNING, GEORGE, son of George Browning, Exeter, Devon; b.; adm.; KS 1667; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1671, matr. 27 Jun 1671, aged 19, Westminster Student 8 Jul 1672-90 (void), Tutor 1678; BA 1675; MA 18 Mar 1677/8; ordained; Vicar of Barnstaple, Devon, from 2 Jul 1687; Vicar of Stoke Rivers, Devon, 1701; m. 29 May 1690 Honor, eldest dau. of Rev. William Reade, Rector of Drewsteignton, Devon; buried Barnstaple, Devon 16 Nov 1702.

BROWNING, WILLIAM, son of William Browning, Southwark, Surrey, fellmonger, and Elizabeth ---; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1714/5; Min. Can. 1717, 1718; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Mar 1718/9; BA 1722; MA 1725; ordained deacon 19 Dec 1725, priest 18 Dec 1726 (both Oxford); Rector of Bermondsey, Surrey, from 16 Feb 1726/7; d. 23 Dec 1740.

BRUCE (or BRUES), DAVID, son of Thomas Bruce, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and Prudence ---; bapt. 25 Dec 1645; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1660; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 2 Aug 1662, matr. 1663; migrated to Christ’s Coll.; BA 1666/7; ordained priest (Lincoln) 12 Mar 1667/8.

BRUCE, HON. CHARLES ANDREW, brother of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine (S) (qv); b. 18 Jan 1768; adm. 5 Oct 1778; left 1782; Writer, EICS Bengal 1783; Judge and Magistrate, Hooghly, 1795; present at OWW dinner at Calcutta 1801 (Hickey, Memoirs, iv, 270); Judge of Court of Appeal, Dacca, 1806, Murshidabad 1807; Governor of Prince of Wales’s Island (Penang); m. 1st, 20 May 1795 Anna Maria, eighth dau. of Sir Charles William Blunt, Bart., EICS Bengal; m. 2nd, 20 Jan 1802 Charlotte Sophia, sister of Thomas John Dashwood (qv); d. in Penang 27 Dec 1810.

Bruce, Robert, 12th Baron Balfour of Burleigh (de facto 8th Baron), elder son of George John Gordon, de facto 7th Baron, 11th but for the Attainder, and Dorothy, d. of Richard Henry Done of Salterswell, Cheshire; b. 6 Jan. 1927; adm. Nov. 1940 (G); left July 1945; RN 1945-8 (ldg radio electrician’s mate); Faraday House, Dip. 1951; English Electric Co., UK 1952-7, Madras 1957-60, dir. and gen. man. India 1960-4, gen. man. Liverpool 1965-6; dir. and gen. man. D. Napier & Sons 1966-8; succ. father as 12th Baron Balfour of Burleigh (S) 4 June 1967; FIEE CEng 1968; dir. Bank of Scotland 1968-91, Dep. Governor 1977-91; chmn. Viking Oil 1971-80; dir. Scottish Invest. Trust 1971-97; chmn. Scottish Arts Council 1971-80; Forestry Commissioner 1971-4; chmn. NWS Bank 1978-91; dir. William Lawson Distillers 1984-97; chmn. Cappella Nova 1988-2009; office-holder in other companies and arts organisations; FRS (Ed) 1986; Chancellor, Stirling Univ. 1988-98; Vice-Lieut., Clackmannan 1995-2001; m. 1st, 30 Oct. 1971 Jennifer Ellis Brittain-Catlin, formerly wife of John Edward Jocelyn Brittain-Catlin (qv), and d. of Ellis Manasseh; 2nd, 29 Aug. 1993 Janet Morgan CBE DPhil, political historian, d, of Frank Morgan; d. 2019

BRUCE, THOMAS, 7TH EARL OF ELGIN AND 11TH EARL OF KINCARDINE (S), second son of Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin and 9th Earl of Kincardine (S), and Martha, dau. of Thomas Whyte, London, banker; b. 20 Jul 1766; succ. elder brother as 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine (S), 15 Jul 1771; adm. 5 Oct 1778, having previously been at Harrow Sch.; left 1782; St. Andrews Univ.; Univ. Paris; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards, 6 Apr 1785; Capt., 65th Foot, 9 May 1789; Maj., local rank on continent, 8 May 1793; Lieut. -Col., Elgin’s Fencible Infantry, 28 Nov 1794-1802, and also of a second Regt. Fencible Infantry, which he raised, 17 Apr 1795-1802; Brevet Col., 29 Apr 1802; Maj. -Gen., 25 Oct 1809; Lieut. -Gen., 4 Jun 1814; Gen., 10 Jan 1837; a Scottish Representative Peer 1790-1807, 1820-41; British Envoy on special mission to Vienna 1790-1; Envoy to Brussels, 18 Aug 1792-4; Minister Plenipotentiary to Berlin, 15 Aug 1795-8; Ambassador to Constantinople, 13 Apr 1799- Jan 1803; Privy Councillor 3 Jul 1799; while in Constantinople employed agents to acquire for him the Elgin Marbles (purchased from him by the British Government in 1816 and deposited in the British Museum); while on way home to Britain from Turkey, detained in France as prisoner of war May 1803- Jun 1806; m. 1st, 11 Mar 1799 Mary, only child of William Nisbet MP, Dirleton, Haddingtonshire; m. 2nd, 21 Sep 1810 Elizabeth, youngest dau. of James Townshend Oswald MP, Dunnikier, Fifeshire; d. at Paris 14 Nov 1841. DNB.