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Marten 1823-44 and with G. Thomas 183944; alderman of Billingsgate ward 1821-44; sheriff of London 1824, lord mayor 1826, cbamberlain 13 Sept. 1844 to death. d. at residence, Clapham Rise, London 15 May 1853, prt. by S. Lane exhibited at R. A. 1844. London's Roll of fame (1884) 171 prt.; Times 17 May 1853 pp. 6, 9.

BROWN, CHARLES JOHN (5 son of Alexander Brown of Aberdeen, bookseller). b. Aberdeen 21 Aug. 1806; educ. at gr. sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen; licensed by presbytery of Aberdeen; minister of Anderston ch. Glasgow 1831-7; minister of New north ch. Edinburgh 20 April 1837; declared no longer a minister 5 July 1843; pastor of Free new north ch. Forrest road, Edinb. June 1848 to 1884; moderator of general assembly 1872; author of The divine glory of Christ 1868; Conformity to the world: its cure 1872; The word of life being selections from the work of a ministry 1873. Wylie's Disruption worthies i (1881) prt., ii 65-72.

BROWN, COLIN RAE. b. Greenock 19 Dec. 1821; published at Glasgow, North British daily mail, the first daily paper in Scotland 1847; founded at Glasgow, The Bulletin 1855, the first daily penny paper in Great Britain, also 2 weekly papers, The Scottish Banner and The Workman; author of Lays and lyrics 1855; The Wallace shrine and other poems 1869; Noble love and other poems 1871; The dawn of love: an idyll of modern life 1873; Edith Dewar: or glimpses of Scottish social life and manners in the nineteenth century, 3 vols. 1875, reprinted from St. James's Mag. d. 11 Sept. 1897. Murdoch's Scottish poets (1883) 194-8; Biograph, March 1879 pp. 135-9; Times 15 Sept. 1897 p. 1. BROWN, DAVID (brother of Charles John Brown, b. 1806). b. Aberdeen 17 Aug. 1803; educ. at gr. sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1821; D.D. Aberdeen 1852 and Princeton college, Jersey, U S.A.; licensed to preach 5 July 1826; assistant to rev. Edward Irving in London 1830-2; minister of Ord 1 Sept. 1835; ordained 17 Nov. 1836; declared no longer a minister, May or June 1843; minister of Free St. James's, Glasgow, Oct. 1843 to 1857; professor of apologetics, exegesis of the Gospels and senior church history, Aberdeen free church college, May 1857 to death, principal of the college, Oct. 1875 to death; one of revisers of New Testament 1870-80; received royal order of St. Sava from king of Servia, May 1894; author of Christ's second coming: will it be premillenial? 1843, 6 ed.

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1867; Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans 1860; Commentary on the Gospels 1863; Commentary on the Acts and Romans 1869 and other books; author with Robert Jamieson and A. R. Faussett of A commentary, critical, experimental and practical, on the Old and New Testaments, 4 vols. 1864. d. Aberdeen 3 July 1897. Wylie's Disruption worthies i (1881) prt., ii 73-8; Times 5 July 1897 p. 12.

BROWN, DOUGLAS (3 son of Jonathan Brown of Jamaica, d. 1823). b. 9 April 1820; educ. Edinburgh academy and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; barrister L.I. 6 May 1847, bencher 2 Nov. 1869 to death; recorder of King's Lynn 6 Jany. 1869, resigned March 1885; Q.C. 23 June 1869; F.S.A. 7 June 1866. d. Arncliffe hall, Northallerton 29 June 1892. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. of London xiv 335 (1893).

BROWN, ELIZABETH. Well known as an astronomer; director of section for observation of the sun for Liverpool astronomical soc. 1883 and for British astronomical soc. 1890, for which she brought out 7 annual reports on changes of solar surface; observed total eclipse of the sun at Kineshma, near Moscow 1887, at Trinidad 1889 and at Vadso in Lapland 1896; author of In pursuit of a shadow by a lady astronomer 1888; Caught in the tropics: sequel to 'In pursuit of a shadow' 1890. d. Further Barton, Cirencester 5 March 1899. Times 16 March 1899 p. 10; I.L.N. 25 March 1899 p. 413 prt. BROWN, FORD MADOX (son of Ford Brown, commissary R.N.) b. Calais 16 April 1821; studied painting at Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp; exhibited cartoon Bringing the body of Harold to the Conqueror, at Westminster hall 1844 and 3 frescoes there 1845; taught figure drawing at Working men's college from 1858; member of firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and co. decorative artists, London 1861-74; executed 12 frescoes for town hall, Manchester 1878-93; exhibited 5 pictures at R A.. 5 at B.I. and 6 at various exhibitions 1841-67, also many pictures at Liverpool, Edinburgh and other places; exhibited 100 cartoons and pictures, including his masterpiece, The last of England, in Piccadilly, London 1865; many of his pictures were at Royal jubilee exhibition, Manchester 1887. d. London 6 Oct. 1893. bur. Finchley cemet., prt of himself in his picture The last of England, now at Birmingham art gallery, another prt. by him of himself exhibited at New gallery, London 1900. Hueffer's Ford

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Madox Brown, his life and work (1896) prt.; Rossetti's Fine art (1867) 178-202; Bates's The English pre-Raphaelite painters (1899) 3-22; Quilter's Preferences (1892) 8-14; Portraits of men of eminence iv 27-31 (1866) prt.; Magazine of art xii 185 (1889) prt.; I.L.N. 14 Oct. 1893 p. 470 prt.

BROWN, GEORGE. b. Stockbridge 21 July 1875; well known as a jockey; killed while riding at Brighton 7 Aug. 1895. The Figaro 21 Feb. 1895 p. 12 prt.

BROWN, GEORGE JOHN. Cornet 4th dragoons 17 April 1840, lieut. col. 4 May 1860, placed on h.p. 5 Oct. 1867; served in Crimean camd. paign 1854-5; colonel 4 May 1865. Brighton 7 Feb. 1871 aged 50. BROWN, HENRY DRAKE. b. 1806; edited The news of the world and several other papers. d. 10 Onslow crescent, London 8 March 1892. Stationery trades journal, April 1892 p. 102. BROWN, HUGH STOWELL (2 son of rev. Robert Brown, V. of Kirk Braddan 1836 to death 28 Nov. 1846). b. Douglas, Isle of Man 10 Aug. 1823; apprenticed to a land surveyor 1838; minister of Myrtle st. Baptist chapel, Liverpool about Nov. 1847 to death; pres. of the Baptist union 1878; author of The battle of life 1857; Twelve lectures to the men of Liverpool, 3 vols. 1858-60; Hogarth and his pictures 1860; Ancient maxims for modern times 1876 and other books. d. 29 Falkner sq. Liverpool 24 Feb. 1886, statue of him in the space fronting Myrtle st. baptist chapel unveiled 15 Oct. 1889. H. S. Brown's Autobiography, 2 ed. (1887) 3 prts.; The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, 1st series (1859) prt.

BROWN, HUMPHREY (son of Humphrey Brown of Tewkesbury, merchant). b. Tewkesbury 1803; wharfinger and general carrier at Gloucester; shipowner 2 Little Smith st. Westminster; M.P. for Tewkesbury 28 July 1847 to 21 March 1857, contested Tewkesbury 28 March 1857; well known as a railway statist; purchased large building in the Oldbury, Tewkesbury, which had been for many years occupied as a theatre and converted it into a silk manufactory 14 Sept. 1847; a director of Royal British bank 4 Feb. 1853, paid in to his credit £18 14, but borrowed £2,000 same day and ended by owing the bank £77,000, the bank closed 3 Sept. 1856; tried with 6 other directors for fraud 13-27 Feb. 1858, sentenced to one year's imprisonment, discharged end of June 1858; bankrupt 31 July 1857; J.P. for Tewkesbury, his name was erased from commission by lord chancellor

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April 1858; author of Irish wants and practical remedies 1849; Railway accidents, railway amalgamation and railway management 1853. d. Little Smith st. Westminster 6 June 1860. Williams's Parliamentary history of county of Gloucester (1898) 256; A.R. (1859) 330–9; I.L.N. 23 April 1853 p. 309 prt.

BROWN, ISAAC. b. Amwellbury, a farm near Ware, Herts. 1803; member of society of Friends all his life; kept a school at Hitchin 1829, which was removed to Dorking 1845; principal of the Friends' Flounders institute at Ackworth in Yorkshire 1848-70; resided at Brantholme, Kendal 1870 to death ; F.R.M.S. 1850; F.R.A.S. 1851. d. 3 Nov. 1895. Monthly notices of royal astronom. soc. lvi 188 (1896).

BROWN, JAMES. Ensign 57 foot 15 June 1815, placed on h.p. 25 Feb. 1816, on full pay again 28 March 1816, lieut. 5 Oct. 1820, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1821, on full pay again 17 Jany. 1822, major 11 Feb. 1842; major 94 foot 6 May 1843, lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846; lieut. col. 43 foot 21 April 1854 to death; colonel 20 June 1854. d. Bellary, Madras 6 Nov. 1856. H. S. Smith's Annual military obituary for 1856 (1857) 5. BROWN, JAMES (son of Mr. Brown, minister of United secession church at Cumnock). b. Cumnock, Ayrshire 1834; minister of St. James's st. ch. Paisley 1859 to death; author of The life of a Scottish probationer: being a memoir of Thomas Davidson: with his poems 1877, 2 ed. 1878; Life of John Eadie, D.D., LL.D. 1878; Life of William B. Robertson, D.D., of Irvine 1888, 2 ed. 1889. d. Paisley 8 Nov. 1890. Times 11 Nov. 1890 p. 7. BROWN, JAMES MORAY (son of James Brown, lieut. col. 43 foot 1854 to death 6 Nov. 1856). b. about 1848; educ. Wellington college 1859-64; 2 lieut. 79 foot 1 Sept. 1866, lieut. 28 Oct. 1871, instructor of musketry 11 Aug. 1874, retired 23 June 1880; hunting and polo editor of Land and water and polo manager, Ranelagh club, Barn Elms; author of Shikar sketches: with notes on Indian field sports 1887; Powder, spur and spear: a sporting medley 1888; In the days when we went hog hunting 1891; Stray sport, 2 vols. 1893; Polo 1895, 2 ed. 1896; Polo in Riding and polo (Badminton library) 1891, 4 ed. 1899; author with May Crommelin of Violet Vivian, M.F.H. 1889. d. 36 Woodstock road, Bedford park, Chiswick 3 Dec. 1894. Wellington college register (1897) 7; Hayes's Among men and horses (1894) 298 prt.; Certificate of registrar general.

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BROWN, JOHN. b. Braintree, Essex 1780; stonemason at Colchester about 1805-30; resided at Stanway, near Colchester 1830 to death; made a very fine collection of fossils and shells, bequeathed to sir Richard Owen, who presented most of them to Natural history museun, London. d. Stanway 28 Nov. 1859. Essex Naturalist iv 158-68 (1890).

BROWN, SIR JOHN (2 son of Samuel Brown of Sheffield, slater). b. Flavell's yard, Fargate, Sheffield 6 Dec. 1816; apprenticed to Earl Horton and Co. factors of Orchard place, Sheffield, manager of the business 1831; invented conical steel spring buffer for railway waggons 1848; opened Atlas steel works, Saville st. Sheffield 1856; originated use of rolled steel armour plating for warships 1860, his method was approved by royal commission 1863; sheathed three-fourths of British navy in a few years; converted his business into a limited liability co. 1864; mayor of Sheffield 1862 and 1863 and master cutler 1865 and 1866; knighted by letters patent 31 Aug. 1867. d. at F. C. Barron's house, Shortlands, Bromley, Kent 27 Dec. 1896. bur. Ecclesall. Jeans's The creators of the age of steel (1884) 269-98; Fortunes made in business i 241-88 (1884); I.L. N. 5 Oct. 1867 p. 368 prt., 9 Jany. 1897 p. 42 prt.

BROWN, SIR JOHN CAMPBELL (son of rev. John Brown of Langton, Berwickshire). b. 1811; educ. Edinburgh univ.; assistant surgeon Bengal army 5 July 1836; surgeon 66 Bengal N.I. 3 Feb. 1850; surgeon 3rd brigade artillery, Jany. 1855; D.I.G. of hospitals, Sirhind 1 Dec. 1859 to 23 Nov. 1870; surgeon general 24 Nov. 1870, retired 15 Feb. 1876; hon. surgeon to the queen 6 Sept. 1861 to death; Č.B. 24 March 1858, K.C.B. 29 May 1875. d. 1 Athole crescent, Edinburgh 27 July 1890. I.L.N. 2 Aug. 1890 p. 134, 11 Oct. p. 474.

BROWN, JOHN TURLAND. b. Bugbrooke, near Northampton 19 Jany. 1819; minister of Baptist chapel, Oakham 1843-7 and of College st. chapel, Northampton 1847 to death; presented with 1,000 guineas at his jubilee 22 Oct. 1893; a founder of Society for liberation of religion from state patronage and control, May 1844; pres. of Baptist union 1877-8. d. Northampton 11 June 1899. Baptist handbook (1900) 205-8 prt.; 1.LN. 24 June 1899 p. 909 prt.

BROWN, NICHOLAS R. Ensign 46 foot 22 March 1821; lieut. 34 foot 11 Aug. 1825, lieut. col. 27 March 1848, retired on full pay 26 Oct. 1855; colonel 28 Nov. 1854. d. 4 Cleveland row, St. James's, London 4 March 1870. Times 8 March 1870 p. 1.

BROWN, PEACH. b. 1802; entered Bengal army 1818; lieut. 14 N.I. 27 June 1820; captain 29 N.I. 23 May 1831, lieut. col. 22 Dec. 1844 to 1849; lieut. col. 6 N.I. 1849 to death. d. Agra 12 Oct. 1851. G.M. Jany. 1852 p. 106.

BROWN, ROBERT (only son of Thomas Brown of Campster, Caithness). b. Campster 23 March 1842; educ. Edinburgh and Leyden; hon. Ph.D. Rostock 1870; botanist to British Columbia expedition 1863; commanded the Vancouver exploration 1864; lecturer in natural history at School of arts, Edinb. and at Heriot-Watt college 1869; on the staff of The Echo in London 1876; a leader writer on The Standard 1879 to death; F.L.S. 16 Jany. 1873; author of The races of mankind, 4 vols. 1873-6; A manual of botany 1874; The countries of the world, 6 vols. 1876-81; The peoples of the world, 5 vols. 1882-5; Our earth and its story, 2 vols. 1877-8; edited Science for all, 5 vols. 1877-82. d. Fersley, Rydal road, Streatham, near London 26 Oct. 1895. R. Brown's The adventures of John Jewitt (1896) memoir and prt. Men and women of the time (1895) 115; Proc. of Linnean soc. of London, Oct. 1896 p. 34; I.L.N. 2 Nov. 1895 p. 542 prt.

BROWN, ROBERT JAMES (3 son of Wm. Laurence Brown 1755-1830, principal of Aberdeen univ. 1796-1830). b. 23 Dec. 1792; educ. Aberdeen univ., M.A. 1808; minister of Drumblade, Aberdeenshire 1821-7; professor of Greek, Marischal coll, and univ. of Aberdeen 11 Dec. 1827, retired 1860, lecturer on practical religion 1830-1; moderator of Free church assembly 1846. d. 7 Dec. 1872, prt. in Free ch. coll. Aberdeen. P. J. Anderson's Fasti ii 49 (1898).

BROWN, ROBERT JEFFERYS. b. 1793; founded Royal agricultural college, Cirencester 22 April 1844. d. Cirencester 3 March 1859. G.M. April 1859 p. 436.

BROWN, THOMAS (son of John Brown 1777 or 1778-1848, minister of Langton, Berwickshire 1810-43). Educ. Edinb. univ., D.D. 1888; licensed by presbytery of Dunse 10 Feb. 1835; ordained minister of Kinneff, Kincardineshire 15 Sept. 1837, declared no longer a minister 20 June 1843; minister of Free church, Dean, Edinb. 1849, senior minister to death; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; a translator on Foreign theological library; wrote much in Trans. of Royal soc. of Edinb.; author of Annals of the disruption 1884; Alexander Wood, M.D.: a sketch of his life and work 1887. d. about 10 April 1893. Times 13 April 1893 p. 7.

BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (brother of Hugh Stowell Brown 1823-86). b. Douglas, Isle of Man 5 May 1830; educ. King William's coll. Isle of Man 1846-9, vice-principal 1855-61; exhib. Ch. Ch Oxf. 1850; took a double first in classics and law and history 1853; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; fellow of Oriel coll. 21 April 1854 to 1857; ordained deacon 1855, priest 1857; head master of Crypt school, Gloucester, Sept. 1861 to Sept. 1863; second master at Clifton, Sept. 1863 to early in 1893; C. of St. Barnabas, Bristol 1884-93; author of Betsy Lee: a fo'c's'le yarn 1873; Fo'c's'le yarns: including Betsy Lee and other poems 1881, 2 ed. 1889; The doctor and other poems in the Manx patois 1887; The Manx witch and other poems 1889; Kitty of the Sherragh Vane and the schoolmasters 1891; Old John and other poems 1893; Collected poems 1900. d. suddenly at Clifton college, 30 Oct. 1897. bur. Redland Green, Bristol, prt. in library at Clifton college. Letters of T. E. Brown i 9-56 (1900) memoir; Miles's Poets and poetry v 521-34 (1905); Fortnightly review, Nov. 1900 pp. 765-77; Monthly review, Oct. 1900; I.L.N. 30 Nov. 1897 p. 680 prt.

BROWN, WILLIAM (1 son of Wm. Brown of Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire). b. Louth 1808; barrister G.I. 9 June 1841, bencher 26 May 1880; author of A practical treatise on the Succession duty act 16 and 17 Vict. p. 51 with decisions 1864; Agency and trusts for payment of debts under private arrangement 1868; The law of limitation as to real property 1869. d. 69 Prince's sq. Bayswater, London 2 May 1888. Law Times 2 June 1888 p. 86. BROWN-GREIVE, JOHN TATTON. b. 1795; Second lieut. Woolwich div. of R.M. 21 May 1811; adjutant at Woolwich 14 Nov. 1829 to 28 Feb. 1839; lieut. col. Chatham div. 13 Dec. 1852; colonel commandant at Woolwich 30 Oct. 1855 to 8 Sept. 1858; granted good service pension 1 April 1857; colonel Portsmouth div. 20 March 1865, retired on full pay 1 April 1870; general 13 Feb. 1867; C.B. 2 June 1869; assumed additional name of Grieve 14 Oct. 1872. d. Orde house, near Berwick 4 Nov. 1880. O'Byrne's Naval biog. dict., new ed .(1861) 130; Times 9 Nov. 1880 p. 11.

BROWN-SEQUARD, CHARLES ÉDOUARD (son of Edward Brown, captain in merchant service). b. Port Louis, Mauritius 8 April 1817; affixed his mother's maiden name to his own about 1840; M.D. Paris 1846; one of the 4 secs. of Société de Biologie 1848; took charge of cholera hospital, Mauritius, Dec. 1854, for

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which a gold medal was struck in his honour; taught pupils in Paris 1855-7; published Journal de physiologie 1858-64; F.R.C.P. 1860, Gulstonian lecturer 1861, Baly medallist 1886; F.R.S. 3 May 1860, Croonian lecturer 1861; phys. at National hosp. for the paralysed and epileptic, Queen sq. London 185963; professor of physiology and of pathology of the nervous system, Harvard univ. 1863-8; returned to Paris, Feb. 1868; professor of comparative and experimental pathology in Faculty of medicine, Paris, Jany. 1869 to 1872; phys. at New York 1872-5 and at Paris 1875-7; professor of experimental medicine at College of France 3 Aug. 1878 to death; hon. LL.D. Camb. 1881; pres. Société de biologie 1887; author of Lectures on the physiology and pathology of the nervous system 1860; Lectures on paralysis of the lower extremities 1860; Lectures on nervous affections 1873. d. Paris 1 April 1894. Archives de physiologie normale et pathologique vi 502 (1894); Men of the time (1891) 130; I.L.N. 7 April 1894 p. 414, 14 April p. 447 prt.

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NOTE. His latest invention was a liquid, which was injected under the skin and was supposed to be stimulating enough to convert old men into young men, but on this point he failed to convince his colleagues, as his elixir was futile when tried upon himself, he probably died unconvinced too.

BROWNE, CHARLES HENRY (2 son of Robert Clayton Browne of Browne's hill, co. Carlow 1799-1888). b. 13 Nov. 1836; ensign 97 foot 11 Aug. 1854, lieut. col. 9 Sept. 1879, placed on h.p, 9 Sept. 1884; colonel 31 Dec. 1882; commanded regimental district 23, Wrexham 10 April 1885 to death; C.B. 29 May 1886 d. Wrexham barracks 16 April 1889. LL.M. 27 April 1889 p. 522.

BROWNE, SIR CHARLES MANLEY, 3 Baronet (4 son of sir John Edmond Browne, 1 baronet 1784-1835). b. 1 March 1812; captain Dur ham artillery militia; succeeded his brother 29 April 1869. d. 5 Sept. 1890. I.L.N. 27 Sept. 1890 p. 406.

BROWNE, DENIS (3 son of Denis Browne P.C. Ireland, who d. 14 Aug. 1828). b. 13 Oct. 1795; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, BA 1818, M.A. 1819; V. of Enniscorthy, Wexford to death; dean of Emly 28 April 1852 to death, instituted 17 July 1852; author o Prayers selected from the liturgy of the Church of England: designed for family worship, 4 ed. Dublin, n.d. d. Enniscorthy rectory 14 March 1864. Cotton's Fasti, supple ment (1878) 7.

BROWNE, DOMINICK (1 son of James Browne of Browne hall, co. Mayo). b. 1779; lieut. col. South Mayo militia 31 Dec. 1805 to death; sheriff of Mayo 1821. d. Boulogne 2 Jany. 1853. G.M. April 1853 p. 440. BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (3 son of colonel Robert Browne of Morton house, Bucks) b. Aylesbury 6 March 1811; educ. Eton and Emm. coll. Camb., fellow 1837-40, senior tutor 1838-40; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1836, B.D. 1855, D.D. 1864; Crosse theological scholar 1833, Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1834; ordained deacon by bishop of Ely 1836 and priest 1837; P.C. of St. James's, Exeter 1841-2; P.C. of St Sidwell's, Exeter 1842-3; vice-principal and professor of Hebrew, St. David's college, Lampeter 1843-9; R. of Llandewr- Velfrey, Pembrokeshire 1845-9; preb. of St. David's cath. 1847-9; V. of Kenwyn, near Truro 1849-57; preb. of Exeter 5 Jany. 1850 to 1858; Norrisian professor of divinity at Camb. 6 May 1854 to Feb. 1864; V. of Heavitree, near Exeter 1857-64; canon res. of Exeter cath. December 1857 to 1864; bishop of Ely 4 Feb. 1864, consecrated in Westminster abbey 29 March 1864, installed 26 April; translated to Winchester 15 Aug. 1873, enthroned 11 Dec. 1873, resigned Dec. 1890; prelate of order of the Garter 1873-90; author of An exposition of the thirty-nine articles historical and doctrinal, 2 vols. 1850-3, new ed. 1886; The Pentateuch and the Elohistic Psalms in reply to Bishop Colenso 1863, 2 ed. 1864 and other books. d. Shales, near Bitterne, Hampshire 18 Dec. 1891. bur. in cemet. of Westend parish, memorial altar tomb in nave of Winchester cath. unveiled 1 Dec. 1894. Kitchin's Edward Harold Browne, bishop of Winchester, a memoir (1895) 3 prts.; Arnold's Our bishops and deans i 357-72 (1875); The Anglican pulpit of to-day (1886) 35-48; Men of mark (1876) 25 prt.; Dignitaries of the church, Aug. 1889 prt.; I.L.N. 14 May 1864 p. 477 prt., 26 Dec. 1891 p. 823 prt. BROWNE, FRANCES (dau. of the village postmaster at Stranorlar, Donegal). b. Stranorlar 16 Jany. 1816; lost her sight from small pox about July 1819; contributed to The leisure hour 1853-76 many poems and following stories, The rival heirs 1859, The mystery of Moorside grange 1862, The exile's trust 1867, The neighbours of Kilmaclone 1872, and Seventeen-seventy-six 1876; author of The star of Attéghéi: the vision of Schwartz and other poems 1844; My share of the world an autobiography, 3 vols. 1861; The Castleford case, 3 vols. 1862 and other books; granted civil list pension of £100, 18 June 1863; resided in London 1852 to death. d.

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from apoplexy at 19 St. John's Grove, Richmond, Surrey 21 Aug. 1879. Hays's Women of the day (1885) 30; The leisure hour, Jany. 1902 p. 245; Certificate of registrar general. BROWNE, FREDERICK HERBERT (2 son of Edward Stanley Browne, colonel R. M.) b. Chatham 1849; educ. Manchester gr. sch. and Wadham coll. Oxf., scholar 1868, B.A. 1871, M.A. 1874; ordained deacon 1873, priest 1875; 2nd master of All Saints sch. Bloxam 1871-3, of Cowbridge gr. sch. 1874-6, of Ch. coll. Brecon 1876-8, and of Reading sch. 1878-83; head master of Ipswich sch. 1883, resigned 25 July 1894; cut his throat at Ipswich gr. sch. 31 July 1894. Guardian 1 Aug. 1894 p. 1181, 8 Aug. p. 1215; I.L.N. 18 Aug. 1894 p. 215.

BROWNE, GEORGE HENRY. Exhibited 11 pictures at R.A., 5 at B I., 62 at S.S., and 61 at various exhibitions 1836-85; resided at 14 Royal place, Greenwich. d. 1886. Graves's The royal academy of arts i 316 (1905).

BROWNE, GEORGE LATHOM (3 son of Wm. Brown of Lloyd's coffee house, London). b. 5 Nov. 1815; educ. Merchant Taylors' sch. and St. John's coll. Oxf., Andrew's exhib. 1834; barrister M.T. 11 June 1841; author of Life of the Duke of Wellington 1853; Biography. The era of Mahomet: A.D. 527 to 629. 1856; Narratives of state trials in the nineteenth century, 2 vols. 1882; Wellington or the public and private life of Arthur, first duke of Wellington 1888; author with C. G. Stewart of Reports of trials for murder by poisoning by prussic acid, strychnia, antinomy, arsenic and aconitine 1883. d. 16 Westbourne park villas, London 12 April 1892. Foster's Men at the bar (1885) 61. BROWNE, SIR JAMES (son of Robert Browne of Falkirk). b. 16 Sept. 1839; educ. Cheltenham and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 11 Dec. 1857; captain R.E. 1 July 1870, lieut. col. 12 Aug. 1886 to 29 March 1890; engineer-in-chief on Sind-Pishin state railway 1884-7; Q.M.G. in India 6 May 1889 to 11 March 1892; M.G. 29 March 1890; governor-general's agent and chief comr. Baluchistan, March 1892 to death; served in Afghan war 1878-9 and Egyptian expedition 1882; C.S.I. 29 July 1879, K.C.S.I. 2 Jany. 1888; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882; author of Scepticism-Credulity O: religion of algebraic curves 1882. d. Quetta, Baluchistan 13 June 1896. Vibart's Addiscombe (1894) 63743; Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E. cxxv 428-30 (1896).

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