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

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Thomas Browne, D.D. (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 B.A. in 1786; MA in 1789; and B.D. 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 and Bourn.

References

  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 2018-11-06.