Samuel Browne (c. 1634–1691) was an English landowner and MP.

Biography

Samuel Browne was the son of John Brown of Stocken Hall, Stretton in the county of

Rutland Rutland () is a ceremonial county and unitary authority in the East Midlands, England. The county is bounded to the west and north by Leicestershire, to the northeast by Lincolnshire and the southeast by Northamptonshire. Its greatest len ...

and a nephew of Samuel Browne (d. 1668). He was admitted to

Emmanuel College, Cambridge Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site on which the college sits was once a priory for Dominican mon ...

in 1650, and he succeeded his father c. 1639. He was appointed a militia commissioner by the Rump Parliament in 1659, and was M.P. for

in the Convention Parliament of 1660, (his more famous and influential uncle was also a member of that parliament, member for the constituency of Bedfordshire). He served as deputy lieutenant for Rutland from 1671 to 1682 and from 1690 until his death and was appointed Sheriff of Rutland for 1676–77.

Family

He married Anne (the daughter of John Tighe of Calceby, Lincolnshire) before 1655. They had a son who died before him and four daughters who survived him. cites VCH Rutland, i. 200-1, ii. 145-8; PCC 77 Vere.

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* * English MPs 1660 High Sheriffs of Rutland Year of birth uncertain 1630s births 1691 deaths {{17thC-England-MP-stub