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Browne, Benjamin Chapman, 1839-1917
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1839-1917
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BROWNE, SIR BENJAMIN CHAPMAN, third son of Col. Benjamin Chapman Browne, Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucs., 9th Lancers, and Mary Anne Lloyd, dau. of Thomas John Lloyd Baker, Hardwicke Court, Gloucs.; b. 26 Aug 1839; adm. (G) 29 Jan 1852; left 1855; King’s Coll. London; apprentice engineer at Sir William Armstrong’s Elswick works 1856-60; AMICE 6 Dec 1864, MICE 7 Mar 1871; MIME; chairman, R. & W. Hawthorn Leslie & Co. Ltd., engineers and shipbuilders, Newcastle upon Tyne, for many years; member, Institution of Naval Architects; Mayor, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1885-7; knighted 5 Aug 1887; hon DCL Durham 1887; DL JP Northumberland; m. 9 Feb 1861 Annie, dau. of Robert Thomas Atkinson, High Cross House, Benwell, Northumberland, civil engineer; d. 1 Mar 1917.
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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.