Browning, Wilfred Robert Francis, son of Charles Robert Browning, university lecturer, of Plymouth, Devon, and Mabel Elizabeth, d. of William Henry Chaney; b. 29 May 1918; adm. Jan. 1931 (A); left July 1937; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric, 1937, BA 1940, MA 1944, BD 1949; ord. deacon 1941, priest 1942 (Peterborough); Curate Towcester 1941-4, Christ Church Woburn Square, Lond., 1944-6; Chaplain Heswall Nautical Sch. 1946-8; Priest-in-charge St Richard’s, Hove 1948-51; Rector Great Haseley, Oxon, and lecturer Cuddesdon Theol. Coll. 1951-9; Canon Residentiary Blackburn, Warden Whalley Abbey, 1959-65; examining chaplain to Bishop of Oxford 1965-88; Canon of Ch. Ch., Oxf., 1965-87; author of A Commentary on St Luke’s Gospel 1960, Guide to the New Testament 1962 and Oxford Dictionary of the Bible 1996; awarded Cross of St Augustine 2008; m. 31 July 1948 Mary Elizabeth Beeston, teacher, d. of Capt. William Horace Beeston of Cranmore House, Aldershot; d. 23 Feb. 2017.