Ambrose Browne (11 January 1659 - July 1688)Leigh Rayment gives day of burial as day of death was an English politician who sat in the

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from 1685 to 1688. Browne was the son of Sir Adam Browne, 2nd Baronet of

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, Surrey and his wife Philippa Cooper, daughter of Sir John Cooper, Bt of Winbourn St Giles, Dorset. His father was MP for Surrey.John Burke ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain''
/ref> He was educated at

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and was commissioner for assessment for Surrey from 1673 to 1680.Basil Browne Henning ''The House of Commons, 1660-1690, Volume 1''
/ref> At a contested election in 1685, Browne was elected

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for

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. He became a gentleman of the privy chamber and captain in the Earl of Plymouth's horse at the time of Monmouth's rebellion. He opposed the king's religious policy and was cashiered in March 1687. Browne died in 1688 and was buried at Dorking on 24 July. He predeceased his father and the baronetcy became extinct.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Browne, Ambrose 1659 births 1688 deaths English MPs 1685–1687 Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford People from Surrey (before 1889) Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber Heirs apparent who never acceded Ambrose