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Thomas Browne (Master of Christ's College, Cambridge)

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Thomas Browne (1766–1832) was a priest and academic in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.[1]

Browne was born in Poulton-le-Fylde. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1786; MA in 1789; and BD in 1796. He became Fellow in 1791; and was Master from 1808 to 1814.[2] He held livings at Little Snoring, Seaton Ross, Bere Ferrers, Bourn, and Gorleston.

Browne married Lucy, a daughter of John Astley, and as a result was presented to the benefice of Gorleston in Norfolk.[3]

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  1. ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752-1900 Vol. i. Abbey – Challis, (1940) p126
  2. ^ "Masters of Christ's College since 1505". christs.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  3. ^ C. J. Palmer, Perlustration of Great Yarmouth, Vol. III, p. 357