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.