Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
BROWN, John. b. Dover 2 Aug. 1797; in the East Indian merchant service 1811–15; wholesale goldsmith and diamond merchant in London; advocated expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin and made collections illustrative of Arctic adventure; F.R.G.S. 1837; a founder of Ethnological Soc. 1843; author of The north west passage and the plans for the search for Sir John Franklin a review 1858, 2 ed. 1860. d. Scaleby lodge, Camden road, London 7 Feb. 1861. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxi, 116 (1861); G.M. x, 571–3 (1861).
BROWN, John. b. Barnwell near Cambridge 4 Aug. 1796; brought up as a shoemaker; entered the army but deserted; became a strolling player; served in the navy; worked as a shoemaker; acted in London and the provinces; proprietor of University billiard rooms and racket court, Ram yard, Bridge st. Cambridge for many years before his death; town councillor of Cambridge. d. Cambridge 22 Aug. 1863. Sixty years gleanings from life’s harvest by John Brown 1858, portrait.
BROWN, John (son of Rev. John Brown 1784–1858). b. Biggar, Lanarkshire 22 Sep. 1810; ed. at high sch. and univ. Edin.; apprenticed to James Syme the eminent surgeon 1828–33; M.D. Edin. 1833; physician at Edin. 1833 to death; author of Horæ Subsecivæ 3 vols. 1858–82. d. 23 Rutland st. Edin. 11 May 1882. Good Words for 1882 pp. 446–51, portrait: Macmillan’s Mag. xlvii, 281–95 (1883); I.L.N. lxxx, 508 (1882), portrait.
BROWN, John. b. Crathie near Balmoral, Aberdeenshire 8 Dec. 1826; personal attendant on Queen Victoria Dec. 1865 to death. d. Clarence tower, Windsor Castle 27 March 1883. bur. Crathie cemetery 5 April. Life of J. Brown by H. L. Williams 1883; More leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands (1884) 31, portrait; I.L.N. lxxxii, 332 (1883), portrait.
BROWN, John A. (3 son of Alexander Brown of Baltimore, banker). b. Ballymena, co. Antrim 21 May 1788; went to United States about 1800; manager of his father’s bank at Philadelphia 1818, succeeded to the business; retired about 1839 with a large fortune; gave to charities sum of 500,000 dollars 300,000 of them to Presbyterian hospital of Philadelphia. d. Philadelphia 31 Dec. 1872.
BROWN, John Charles. b. Glasgow 1805; landscape painter in London, Glasgow and Edin.; associate of Royal Scottish Academy; drew views for John Wilson’s Scotland illustrated 1845; his picture ‘The last of the Clan’ was engraved for Royal Association of Fine Arts Scotland 1851. d. 10 Vincent st. Edin. 8 May 1867.
BROWN, John Hoskins. Entered navy 25 July 1805; registrar general of seamen 1835 to April 1851; captain 20 March 1863; C.B. 8 April 1862; author of The Shipmasters’ guide 1844, new ed. 1855; edited The mercantile navy list 1850 etc. d. Brixton, London 29 June 1864 aged 72.
BROWN, John Tatton Butler. b. 1 Oct. 1833; 2 lieut. R.A. 18 June 1851, lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1876 to 29 Oct. 1881 when he retired with hon. rank of M.G.; C.B. 27 Nov. 1879. d. Park Mount, Kent road, Southsea 19 Aug. 1885.
BROWN, John Wright (son of Rev. Charles J. Brown of Edinburgh). b. Edin. 19 Jany. 1836; assistant in herbarium connected with Botanic garden Edin.; an associate of Edinburgh Botanical Society to which he contributed a list of the plants of Elie, Fifeshire. d. 39 George sq. Edinburgh 23 March 1863. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. vii, 519–20 (1863).
BROWN, Rev. Joseph. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1833; P.C. of St. Matthias, Bethnal Green, London 1844–9; R. of Ch. Ch. Southwark 1849 to death; originator of Homes for servants out of place, and the Albert Institution Blackfriars; practically created Cholera orphan house, Ham common, since called National orphan home; author of Narratives and sermons for schools 1856; Hymns and psalms for divine worship 1859. d. Richmond hill, Surrey 13 Aug. 1867 aged 67. I.L.N. xxvi, 269 (1855), portrait.
BROWN, Joseph (7 son of George Brown of North Shields). b. North Shields Sep. 1784; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; entered army medical service, attached to Wellington’s staff in Peninsular war; resumed his studies at Edin., M.D. 2 Aug. 1819; practised at Sunderland 1819 to death, medical officer of the Infirmary 1822 to death; mayor of Sunderland 1840, alderman 1841; author of Medical essays on fever, inflammation and rheumatism 1828; A defence of revealed religion 1851; Memories of the past and thoughts on the present age 1863; The food of the people 1865. d. Villiers st. Sunderland 19 Nov. 1868. Munk’s Roll of physicians iii, 284 (1878); Medical times and gazette ii, 683–4 (1868).
BROWN, Lewis George. b. 23 Feb. 1838; ensign 5 Bombay N.I. 13 July 1854; wing commander 8 Bombay N.I. 30 June 1877 to death; lieut. col. staff corps 9 June 1880 to death. d. Sibi, Afghanistan 11 Aug. 1880. I.L.N. lxxvii, 309 (1880), portrait.
BROWN, Oliver Madox (son of Ford Madox Brown of London, historical painter). b. Finchley 20 Jany. 1855; ed. at Univ. coll. London; exhibited 2 water colours at Dudley Gallery 1869–70; exhibited a water colour “Exercise” at the R.A. 1870, “Prospero and the infant Miranda” at International exhibition South Kensington 1871 and “Silas Marner” at Society of French artists 1872; published a story entitled Gabriel Denver 5 Nov. 1873. d. Fitzroy sq. London 5 Nov. 1874. O. M. Brown, a biographical sketch by H. Ingram (1883), 2 portraits; The Dwale Bluth and other literary remains of O. M. Brown 2 vols. 1876, 2 portraits; Scribner’s Mag. xii, 425–8 (1876).
BROWN, Peter. Ensign 82 Foot 7 Dec. 1799; major 23 Foot 20 July 1815 to 25 July 1816 when placed on h.p.; commandant of Royal military asylum at Chelsea 15 Dec. 1843 to 1851; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; served in the Peninsula 1810 to end of the war. d. Gosport 3 Jany. 1853.
BROWN, Peter. b. Perth; editor of the Dundee Advertiser about 1835; edited the Dundee Herald originally called Dundee Chronicle; a reporter on the Morning Post in London to death. d. 5 April 1855.
BROWN, Peter. b. Scotland 29 June 1784; merchant in Edinburgh; went to New York 1838; editor and proprietor of the British Chronicle; removed to Toronto 1843 where he established The Banner 18 Aug. 1843 and edited it; author of The fame and glory of England vindicated, by Libertas 1842. d. Toronto 30 June 1863. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) p. 51.
BROWN, Rawdon Lubbock. b. 1803; lived at Venice 1833 to death; commissioned by Lord Palmerston to calendar Venetian state papers treating of English history 1862 for which purpose he examined twelve million packets of documents in North Italy; author of Calendar of state papers and manuscripts relating to English affairs existing in the archives and collections of Venice and of other libraries of Northern Italy 8 vols. 1864–84. d. Casa della Vida, Venice 25 Aug. 1883. Times 29 Aug., 8 Sep. and 13 Sep. 1883; Athenæum 8 Sep. 1883 p. 307.
BROWN, Robert (2 son of Rev. James Brown, Episcopalian minister of Montrose). b. Montrose 21 Dec. 1773; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen and Univ. of Edin.; naturalist to H.M.S. Investigator under Flinders 1801–5 when he collected nearly 4000 species of dried plants; librarian to Linnæan Society 1805–20; custodian of library and collections of Sir Joseph Banks 1810–20; keeper of Banksian botanical collection at British Museum 1827 to death; F.R.S. 12 Dec. 1811, Copley medallist 1839; F.L.S. 1822, pres. 1849 to May 1853; one of the 8 foreign associates of French Academy of Sciences 1833; an honorary member of every academy in Europe; granted a civil list pension of £200, 14 Sep. 1843; author of Prodromus Floræ Novæ Hollandiæ et insulæ Van Diemen 1810; Vermischte botanische Schriften, ed. by C. G. Nees von Esenbeck 5 vols. 1825–34. d. 17 Dean st. Soho, London 10 June 1858. Proc. of Royal Soc. ix, 527–32 (1858); Proc. of Linnæan Soc. (1859) 25–30; Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxix, 115–19 (1859); I.L.N. xxxiii, 29 (1858), portrait.
BROWN, Rev. Robert Christopher Lundin (son of Rev. Robert Brown, minister of Largo). ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1854; missionary in British Columbia 1860–5; V. of Lineal Salop 1869–74; P.C. of Rhodes near Manchester 1874–5; author of British Columbia 1863; The dead in Christ 1868; Klatsassan 1873; The life of Peace 1876. d. 26 Grafton sq. Clapham, London 16 April 1876.
BROWN, Sir Samuel (eld. son of Wm. Brown of Borland, co. Galloway). b. London 1776; entered navy 8 June 1795; commander 1 Aug. 1811; retired captain 18 May 1842; invented iron chain cables, described in Philosophical Magazine Oct. 1814; built Union suspension bridge over the Tweed near Berwick 1820; erected chain pier at Brighton 1823; K.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted at St. James’s palace 21 Feb. 1838; took out patents for chains and chain cables and ten other patents. d. Vanbrugh lodge, Blackheath 15 March 1852. G.M. xxxvii, 519–20 (1852).
BROWN, Samuel. Cornet 6 Dragoons 15 March 1798; assistant quartermaster general to the army in Egypt 1801; major York light infantry 25 Sep 1807 to 19 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; general 20 June 1854. d. Bromley, Kent 2 March 1855.
BROWN, Samuel (4 son of Samuel Brown of Haddington, founder of itinerating libraries). b. Haddington 23 Feb. 1817; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin., M.D. 1839; delivered a course of lectures on philosophy of the sciences at Edin. 1840–1, and 4 lectures on the Atomic theory 1843; contested chair of chemistry in Univ. of Edin. 1843; experimented on the atomic constitution of bodies; author of The tragedy of Galileo Galilei in 5 acts and in verse 1850; Lectures on the atomic theory and essays scientific and literary 2 vols. 1858, and of many articles in North British Review and other periodicals. d. Canaan grove, Morningside, Edin. 20 Sep. 1856. Macmillan’s Mag. xii, 74–82 (1865); North British Review Nov. 1856.
BROWN, Samuel. b. 1812; actuary of Mutual life office 1850 and of Guardian insurance company 1855; advocated uniform weights and measures throughout commercial world; an active founder of Institute of Actuaries 1848, pres. 1867–70, instituted the Brown prize; joint editor of Journal of Institute of Actuaries; pres. over section of Economic Science and Statistics at British Association in Norwich 1868; author of numerous papers in Assurance Magazine 1850 to death and in Journal of Statistical Society. d. The Elms 42 Lark hall rise, Clapham, London 20 March 1875. C. Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia i, 395–6 (1871).
BROWN, Thomas. Midshipman R.N. 1787; captain 22 Jany. 1806; commanded the Ordinary at Sheerness 1816–19; commanded Vigo 74 guns, Tartar 42 guns, Talavera 74 guns and Caledonia 120 guns, successively May 1833 to Oct. 1835 when placed on h.p.; admiral on h.p. 4 July 1855. d. Southampton 17 June 1857 aged 79.
BROWN, Thomas (son of Christopher Brown, member of firm of Longmans, publishers, London who d. 1807). b. near Paternoster Row, London 1778; ed. at Christ’s hospital; apprenticed in his father’s firm Dec. 1792; a partner 1811 to June 1859; a liveryman of Stationers Company 1804, warden and upper warden 1856–8; gave a stained glass west window to St. Paul’s cathedral which was uncovered 19 March 1867; left by his will £10,000 to Booksellers Provident Institution, £10,000 to Booksellers Retreat and £10,000 to Christ’s hospital. d. 39 Ludgate hill, London 24 March 1869. W. H. Blanch’s Famous blue-coat boys (1880) 59–83; Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 480–2 (1869).
BROWN, Right Rev. Thomas Joseph. b. Bath 2 May 1798; received Benedictine habit at the college Acton Burnell near Shrewsbury 19 April 1813, removed with the college to St. Gregory’s college Downside near Bath where he was professed 28 Oct. 1814, professor of theology there 1823–40, prior of the college 18 July 1834 to 3 July 1840; ordained priest in London 12 March 1823; cathedral prior of Winchester 1833–40; D.D. 24 July 1834; vicar Apostolic of newly created Welsh district 3 July 1840; consecrated in St. John’s chapel Bath, Bishop of Apollonia in Archdiocese of Thessalonica 28 Oct. 1840; bishop of Newport and Menevia 29 Sep. 1850 to death; assistant at pontifical throne 29 Nov. 1854; author of various pamphlets and letters in defence of doctrines of Church of Rome. d. Bullingham near Hereford 12 April 1880. M. Brady’s Episcopal succession iii, 337, 354, 424–6 (1877); Downside Review July 1880 pp. 4–16.
BROWN, Rev. Thomas Richard (son of Richard Brown of Cambridge). b. 1791; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1820; V. of Southwick near Oundle, Northamptonshire 1834 to death; author of English terminations 1838; Hebrew hieroglyphs 1840; Etymological dictionary 2 vols. 1843; Essentials of Sanscrit grammar 1851. d. Southwick 1 Sep. 1875.
BROWN, William (son of a small farmer at Foxford, co. Mayo). b. Foxford 22 June 1777; went to Pennsylvania 1786; commanded an English merchant ship; commodore in navy of Buenos Ayres Feb. 1814; destroyed Spanish fleets at Martin Garcia and Monte Video 1814 and in Pacific ocean and Caribbean sea 1815–18; commanded Buenos Ayres fleet in war against Brazil 12 Jany. 1826 to 1828; assumed reins of government on breaking out of civil war 1842. d. Barracas near Buenos Ayres 3 May 1857. M. G. Mulhall’s English in South America (1878) 144–69, portrait.
BROWN, William (4 son of James Brown of Cononsyth, flax-spinner). Flax-spinner with his brother James at East Ward mill Dundee 1809–56, in 1811 every mill in Dundee was stopped except their mill and the Dens mill; author of Reminiscences of flax-spinning 1862 and of a volume of poetry. d. 14 Nov. 1864 aged 73. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 245–8.
BROWN, Rev. William. Professor of Biblical criticism and theology at St. Andrews University Scotland 14 June 1851 to death; author of The scientific character of the Scottish universities viewed in connection with religious belief and their educational use 1856. d. St. Andrews 19 July 1868 aged 68.
BROWN, Sir William, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Alexander Brown of Ballymena, co. Antrim, linen merchant 1764–1834). b. Ballymena 30 May 1784; ed. at Catterick, Yorkshire; went to the United States 1800; partner in firm of Alexander Brown and Sons of Baltimore, linen merchants; founded firm of Brown, Shipley and Co. at Liverpool 1810 which became leading house in American trade; alderman of Liverpool 1831–8; M.P. for South Lancashire 21 July 1846 to 23 April 1859; raised and equipped a corps of artillery which ranks as the 1 brigade of Lancashire artillery volunteers 1859; a director of Atlantic telegraph company Dec. 1856, chairman; erected at a cost of £40,000 Free public library and Derby museum at Liverpool opened 8 Oct. 1860; created a baronet 24 Jany. 1863; sheriff of Lancashire 1863. d. Richmond hill, Liverpool 3 March 1864. Personalty sworn under £900,000, 21 May 1864. H. R. F. Bourne’s English merchants ii, 307–20 (1866); I.L.N. xix, 70 (1851), portrait.
BROWN, Sir William (son of Richard Brown, chief examiner of accounts at the War Office London). b. 1812; a temporary clerk in office of Secretary at war Dec. 1828; a first class clerk on the consolidation of War office Jany. 1856; assistant accountant general Oct. 1857; accountant general Aug. 1860 to 1 April 1870 when he retired on a pension of £800 a year; C.B. 7 Dec. 1868; knighted at Windsor Castle 18 May 1870. d. Hillside, Parkstone, Dorset 19 May 1884.
BROWN, William Gustavus. b. 5 Feb. 1809; ensign 24 Foot 7 July 1825, lieut. col. 21 Dec. 1849 to 1 Sep. 1861 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general Bengal 28 July 1858 to 15 Nov. 1859 and 5 Sep. 1860 to 2 April 1861; brigadier general Aldershot 1 Sep. 1861 to 28 Feb. 1863; colonel 83 Foot 29 May 1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Sydenham 27 Nov. 1883.
BROWN, William Robert Henry. Projector and one of founders of Morning Advertiser, first number issued 8 Feb. 1794 and of Licensed Victuallers schools at Kennington 1794; projected Golden Lane brewery in which 600 persons were proprietors Sep. 1804; common councilman for ward of Cripplegate 1807; one of founders of Hope Life Insurance Company, the first chairman; governor of Newgate 1817 to 1822 when he resigned; warden of the Fleet prison in city of London and keeper of the old and new palaces in county of Middlesex (alias Westminster Hall) 13 April 1822 to 31 May 1842 when appointment was abolished by act of Parliament 5 and 6 Vict. c. 22 and the prisoners were transferred to Queen’s Bench prison. d. 3 Doughty st. London 15 Feb. 1853 aged 86.
BROWN, Rev. Wilse. Educ. at Em. coll. Cam., scholar; B.A. 1833; P.C. of Eggleston, Durham 1835–57; R. of Whitstone near Exeter 1857 to death; private in Exeter Rifle Corps 1862 to death being only clergyman in England serving in Volunteer Corps, gained many prizes at Wimbledon. d. Whitstone rectory 22 Jany. 1883 aged 72.
BROWN-GREIVE, John Tatton. Second lieut. R.M. 21 May 1811, lieut. col. 13 Dec. 1852, col. commandant 30 Oct. 1855 to 1 April 1870 when he retired on full pay; granted good service pension 1 April 1857; general 13 Feb. 1867; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Orde house near Berwick-on-Tweed 4 Nov. 1880 aged 85.
BROWNBILL, Rev. Francis. b. Gillmoss, Lancs. 5 Nov. 1793; entered Society of Jesus at Hodder 7 Sep. 1813; ordained priest in Dublin Dec. 1819; superior of St. George’s Residence Worcester and of College of St. Francis Xavier 1838–42; superior at the Seminary Stonyhurst 1847; missioner at Newhall, Chelmsford 1843–63; superior at the Little college Hodder Dec. 1864. d. Stonyhurst college 13 May 1875.
BROWNBILL, Rev. James (brother of the preceding). b. Gillmoss 31 July 1798; entered Society of Jesus 7 Sep. 1815; ordained priest at Stonyhurst 30 July 1829; rector of Stonyhurst college 15 May 1836; minister of Stonyhurst 29 May 1839; rector of college of St. Ignatius London 1841–54; missioner to Bury St. Edmunds 1854. d. Newhall, Chelmsford 14 Jany. 1880.
BROWNE, Alexander. b. Langlands parish of Twynholm 1800; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; hospital assistant in the army 16 June 1825; assistant surgeon 23 foot 3 Aug. 1826; went on a medical mission to Emperor of Morocco 1827 whom he cured of ague; surgeon to 37 foot 22 Nov. 1839 to 2 Aug. 1850 when placed on h.p.; d. Langlands 15 April 1872. Medical times and gazette i, 613 (1872).
BROWNE, Andrew. b. 6 June 1820; Ensign 28 foot 30 April 1841; lieut. col. 44 foot 10 Nov. 1869 to 27 Sep. 1871 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861; granted a service reward 9 Sep. 1878; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. d. Dublin 8 April 1883.
BROWNE, Charles Alfred (son of Wm. Loder Browne of Kennington, London, merchant). Entered Madras army 1826; sec. to military department 4 Feb. 1845 to 1860; M.G. 6 April 1862; a leading member of Church Missionary Society. d. King’s head court, St. Martin’s le grand, London 14 Feb. 1866 aged 65.
BROWNE, Charles Farrar. b. Waterford, Maine 26 April 1834; a printer in Maine, Boston and Cincinnati; wrote in the Cleveland, Plaindealer a letter purporting to come from a travelling showman signing it with nom de plume of Artemus Ward; edited Vanity Fair the leading comic paper in New York 1861; gave his first lecture in New York at Clinton hall 23 Dec. 1861; went to California and Utah 1862; went to England 1866; contributed to Punch 1866; lectured at the Egyptian hall, Piccadilly 13 Nov. 1866 to 23 Jany. 1867. d. Radley’s hotel, Southampton 6 March 1867. The genial showman by E. P. Hingston 1871; Essays by E. S. Nadal 1882 16–41; Illust. sporting news v, 705 (1866), portrait.
BROWNE, Charles Thomas. b. Wellington, Somerset 1825; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; engaged on a London daily paper 1857 to death; author of Astrello or the prophet’s vision 1850; Life of Southey 1854; The United States constitution and powers 1856 and under pseudonym of Alexander de Comyne of a poem entitled Irene 1844. d. Basingstoke 7 Oct. 1868.
BROWNE, Fielding. Ensign 40 Foot 7 March 1800; major 19 Jany. 1815 to 22 June 1820 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 22 June 1815; colonel 10 Jany. 1837. d. Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 22 July 1864 aged 79.
BROWNE, George. Captain 37 Foot 24 March 1825 to 29 Aug. 1826 when placed on h.p.; chief commissioner of Dublin Metropolitan police 1837–58; C.B. 13 June 1857. d. Clifton gardens, Folkestone 12 July 1879 aged 91.
BROWNE, George (2 son of John Browne of Hall court, Herts, attorney general of Jamaica who d. 1828). b. Jamaica 1825; ed. at Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1848; barrister I.T. 4 May 1849; a revising barrister 1868; recorder of Ludlow 22 Jany. 1873 to death; Q.C. 24 March 1880; author of A treatise on the principles and practice of the court for divorce and matrimonial causes 1864, 4 ed. 1880; A treatise on the principles and practice of the court of probate 1873, 2 ed. 1881. d. Calverley park, Tunbridge Wells 19 Sep. 1880.
BROWNE, Right Rev. George Joseph Plunket. b. about 1790; ed. at Maynooth; parish priest of Athlone many years; bishop of Galway 6 Aug. 1831, consecrated by Abp. of Tuam 23 Oct. 1831; translated to Elphin 26 March 1844. d. 1 Dec. 1858 in 68 year. W. M. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii, 208, 231–2 (1876).
BROWNE, Hablot Knight (9 son of Wm. Loder Browne of Kennington, London, merchant). b. Lower Kennington lane, London 15 June 1815; apprenticed to Wm. Finden the line engraver; illustrated Dickens’s Sunday as it is, by Timothy Sparks 1836, published at 1/– but now worth more than its weight in gold; illustrated under pseudonym of Phiz Pickwick papers, Martin Chuzzlewit and many other of Dickens’s novels; exhibited many water-colours at Brit. Instit. and Soc. of Brit. artists; illustrated many of Lever’s and Ainsworth’s novels; contributed about 350 sketches to Judy July 1869 to death. d. Hove, Brighton 8 July 1882. D. C. Thomson’s Life and labours of H. K. Browne 1884, portrait; Phiz, a memoir by J. G. Kitton 1882, portrait; Graphic xxvi, 132 (1882), portrait; G. Everitt’s English Caricaturists (1886) 336–54, 412–16.
BROWNE, Rev. Henry (son of Rev. John Henry Browne, R. of Crownthorpe, Norfolk who d. 1 May 1843 aged 75). b. 1804; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam.; Bell Univ. scholar 1823, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830; V. of Rudgwick, Sussex 1831; R. of Earnley, Sussex 1833; principal of diocesan theol. coll. Chichester 1842–7; preb. of Chichester cath. 9 Dec. 1842; chaplain to bishop of Chichester 1847–70; P.C. of St. Bartholomew’s Chichester 1850–4; R. of Pevensey 1854 to death; author of Ordo sæculorum 1844; Remarks on Mr. Greswell’s Fasti Catholici 1852; translated with C. L. Cornish for the ‘Library of the Fathers’ 17 short treatises of St. Augustine. d. Pevensey 19 June 1875.
BROWNE, Very Rev. Henry Montague (2 son of 2 Baron Kilmaine 1765–1825). b. 3 Oct. 1799; dean of cathedral church of St. Carthagh, Lismore 1850 to death. d. Bredon rectory, Worcs. 24 Nov. 1884.
BROWNE, Right Rev. James. b. Mayglass, Forth, co. Wexford 1786; ed. at Maynooth college; dean of Maynooth 1814–6, professor of Sacred Scriptures 1816–27; bishop of Kilmore 20 March 1827 to death; consecrated to see of Magida in partibus 10 June 1827; d. Cavan 11 April 1865. Battersby’s Catholic directory (1866) 389–92.
BROWNE, James Solomon. b. Paddington, London 6 Aug. 1791; ed. at Eton; clerk in Prerogative office Doctors Commons 1802; played Harlequin to Grimaldi at Birmingham; played at Liverpool 1813–23 and 1826–38; first appeared in London at Drury Lane 7 Oct. 1823 as Lord Foppington in A trip to Scarborough; became most versatile actor of the day; acted in America 1838, at Olympic theatre London 1845, afterwards in New York; the original Robert Macaire in the drama of that name; retired from the stage 1858. d. New York 28 Nov. 1869. Oxberry’s Dramatic biography ii, 177–88 (1825), portrait.
BROWNE, Ven. John Henry. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; R. of Cotgrave near Nottingham 1811 to death; archdeacon of Ely 23 Sep. 1816 to death; preb. of Ely 26 June 1817. d. Cotgrave 2 Nov. 1858 aged 79.
BROWNE, John Ross. b. Ireland 1817; passed his youth in state of Kentucky; went to California 1849; went to Europe as a newspaper correspondent 1851; inspector of custom houses on northern frontier of the U.S.; reported on the mineral resources of the country west of the Rocky Mountains for the Government 1866 and 1868; United States minister in China 1868–9; author of Etchings of a whaling cruise 1846; Crusoe’s Island 1864; An American family in Germany 1866; The land of Thor 1867. d. Oakland near San Francisco 7 Dec. 1875.
BROWNE, John Samuel (eld. son of John Browne of London, landscape engraver who d. 2 Oct. 1801 in 60 year). b. St. Saviour’s, Southwark 15 Sep. 1782; clerk in the East India house 1801; author of A catalogue of bishops containing the succession of archbishops and bishops of Canterbury and York from 1688 to the present time 1812; contributed to Gentlemen’s Mag. and Morning Herald. d. Walworth, Surrey 6 June 1858. Gent. Mag. v, 198 (1858).
BROWNE, Peter, b. 1794; M.P. for Rye 18 June 1818 to 2 June 1826; chargé d’affaires at Copenhagen 8 times during the period 1823–52; retired on a pension 6 Jany. 1853. d. Pallanza 7 April 1872.
BROWNE, Philip, b. 16 Sep. 1772; entered navy 1 July 1777; captain 19 June 1810; captain of the Hermes 20 guns 1811–14 when placed on h.p.; V.A. on h.p. 15 April 1854. d. Parkstone near Poole, Dorset 25 Jany. 1860.
BROWNE, Rev. Samuel (son of Rev. John W. Browne, Independent minister). b. England 19 March 1788; went to Cincinnati with his father 1798; a minister of the United Brethren; joined presbytery of Cincinnati about 1868; accumulated a large fortune by the rise of real estate in Cincinnati; bequeathed sum of 150,000 dollars for establishment of a university to bear his name also land whereon to erect the building and an endowment for professorships, d. Harrison junction, Ohio 10 Sep. 1872.
BROWNE, Thomas. Entered navy 5 April 1782; captain 29 April 1802; V.A. 11 Dec. 1846. d. Clifton 7 April 1851 in 83 year. O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict. (1849) 136.
BROWNE, Sir Thomas Henry (elder son of George Browne of Liverpool, Tuscan consul). b. Liverpool 8 Sep. 1787; ensign 23 foot 28 Oct. 1805, captain 15 April 1813 to 25 Dec. 1814 when placed on h.p.; received war medal with 8 clasps; aide-de-camp to Marquis of Londonderry at head quarters of Russian and Austrian armies 1815; L.G. 20 June 1854; colonel 80 foot 19 Aug. 1854 to death; sheriff of Flintshire 1824; K.C.H. 1826. d. London 11 March 1855.
BROWNE, Walter John. Ensign Bombay army 17 Sep. 1819; col. 14 N.I. 22 Aug. 1857–1869; general 29 Aug. 1873; C.B. 4 July 1843. d. Warkworth 31 Oct. 1881 aged 81.
BROWNE, Walter Raleigh (3 son of Rev. Thomas Murray Browne, V. of Almondsbury, Gloucs.) b. Standish, Gloucs. 1842; ed. at home and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1863, 19 wrangler and tenth classic 1865, B.A. 1865; fellow of his coll. 1867; managing director of Bridgewater Engineering company 1874–8; M.I.M.E. 1869, sec. 1878 to Jany. 1884; M.I.C.E. 27 May 1879, Telford medallist 1871 and 1876; F.G.S.; F.R.G.S.; one of founders of Society for Psychical Research 1882; lectured frequently for Christian evidence society; author of Facts and fallacies of pauper education 1878; The inspiration of the New Testament 1880; The foundations of mechanics 1882; The students mechanics 1883. d. from typhoid fever in the general hospital, Montreal 4 Sep. 1884. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxix, 362–6 (1885).
BROWNE, William, b. 1 Nov. 1791; M.P. for co. Kerry 19 July 1841 to 23 July 1847. d. at his house in London 4 Aug. 1876.
BROWNE, William Alexander Francis. b. near Stirling 1805; ed. in Edinburgh high school and Univ., M.D. 1826; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1826; studied in France 1826–30; physician at Stirling 1830; superintendent of Montrose lunatic asylum; superintendent of Crichton Instit. at Dumfries 1839; paid Comr. in lunacy for Scotland 23 Sep. 1857 to 1870; the first phys. in Scotland who adopted new system of treating the insane; author of What asylums were, are, and ought to be. d. Crindan, Dumfries 2 March 1885 aged 79.
BROWNE, William Cheselden. b. 1805; entered navy 1816; captain 9 Jany. 1854; retired admiral 9 Jany. 1880; sec. to Royal yacht club at Cowes 1853–60. d. Townsend house, West Cowes 6 April 1881.
BROWNE, Ven. William Henry. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; archdeacon of Launceston, Tasmania 1870 to death. d. Launceston 18 June 1877 aged 77.
BROWNE, William Henry James (son of Mr. Browne, harbour master at Dublin). Served in merchant service; 2 lieut. of the Enterprise 1848–9; led a sledge party from Port Leopold to east coast of Prince Regent’s Inlet; 2 lieut. of the Resolute 1850–1; his sketches of Arctic scenery at Port Leopold were published by Ackerman 1849; assisted in painting the Arctic panorama in Leicester square London; retired commander 1 July 1864. d. Woolwich March-June 1871.
BROWNE, William Meredith. Assistant sec. of Westminster Fire Office 1831, sec. 1838 to death; a founder of Mutual Life Office 1834; founded Westminster and General Life Office 1839, actuary 1839–69; hon. sec. of London Fire Engine Establishment 1832–65, when the work was undertaken by Metropolitan Board of Works. d. Clarendon road, Putney 30 March 1880 aged 74.
BROWNING, Colin Arrott. Surgeon in the navy 8 Feb. 1817; surgeon of the Surrey, convict ship 1831 and of six other convict ships 1834–46; retired deputy inspector of hospitals 30 June 1856; author of England’s exiles 1842; The Convict ship 1844; The convict ship and England’s exiles, 6 ed. 1855. d. Woolwich 26 Oct. 1856.
BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (eld. dau. of Edward Moulton of Burn hall, Durham). b. Burn hall 6 March 1809; lived at 74 Gloucester place London many years; lived at Florence 1847 to death, (m. 9 Sep. 1846 Robert Browning the poet). author of An essay on mind, with other poems, anon. 1826; Casa Guidi Windows a poem 1851; Aurora Leigh 1857, 18 ed. 1884 and many other poems. d. Casa Guidi, Florence 30 June 1861. The poetical works of E. B. Browning, complete with a memoir 2 vols. New York 1871; P. Bayne’s Two great Englishwomen (1881), 1–154; Macpherson’s Memoirs of the life of Anna Jameson (1878) 191–263; G. B. Smith’s Poets and novelists (1875) 57–110; M. R. Mitford’s Recollections of a literary life (1859), 154–68; T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. (1883) iv, 562–80.