Thomas Browne (priest)
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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
- ↑ Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3
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