Thomas Browne (Canon of Windsor)

For other people named Thomas Browne, see Thomas Browne (disambiguation).

See also Thomas Browne, polymath, 1605 - 1682 Thomas Browne D.D. (c. 1605 – 6 December 1673) was a Canon of Windsor from 1639 to 1673.[1]

Career

He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and was Senior Proctor in 1636.[2]

He was appointed:

• Rector of St Mary Aldermary 1638 - 1641
• Rector of Oddington, Oxfordshire 1640
• Domestic chaplain to Archbishop Laud and King Charles I
• Domestic chaplain to Mary Princess of Orange during the Commonwealth period.[2]

He was appointed to the first stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1639, and held the stall until 1673. He was buried in the chapel.[2]

Works

Browne wrote:

• Tomus alter et idem, a History of the Life and Reign of that famous Princess Elizabeth, a translation of vol. ii. of William Camden's Annals, to which he added an "Appendix containing animadversions upon several passages", 1629;
• Concio ad Clerum, or A Discourse of the Revenues of the Clergy … in a sermon preached … before the university upon taking a B.D. degree 8 June 1637, preserved in The Present State of Letters; *A Key to the King's Cabinet, or Animadversions upon the three printed Speeches of Mr. L'Isle, Mr. Tate, and Mr. Browne, spoken in London, 3 July 1645, Oxford, 1645;
• A Treatise in defence of Hugo Grotius, Hague, 1646;
• Dissertatio de Therapeuticis Philonis, published with The Interpretation of the Two Books of Clement by other writers, 1689.[2]

Isaac Vossius was Browne's major legatee, and his papers went to Amsterdam and Leiden.[3]

Notes

1. Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
2. Hunt, William (1886). "Browne, Thomas (1604?-1673)" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
3. Klebusek, Marika. "Browne, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3701. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Hunt, William (1886). "Browne, Thomas (1604?-1673)". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co.