Thomas Browne (Canon of Windsor)
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- 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
- ^ Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
- ^ a b c d Hunt, William (1886). Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co. . In
- ^ 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. Vol. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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