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

Poulton-le-Fylde Poulton-le-Fylde (), commonly shortened to Poulton, is a market town in Lancashire, England, situated on the coastal plain called the Fylde. In the 2001 United Kingdom census, it had a population of 18,264. There is evidence of human habitation ...

. He was educated at

Christ's College, Cambridge Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 170 graduate students. The college was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as ...

, graduating BA in 1786; MA in 1789; and BD in 1796. He became

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in 1791; and was

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from 1808 to 1814. He held

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Little Snoring Little Snoring is a village and a civil parish in Norfolk, England. The village is approximately east-north-east from the town of Fakenham, west-south-west from Cromer, and to the side of the A148 road. At the 2011 Census, it had a populat ...

Seaton Ross Seaton Ross is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately west of the market town of Market Weighton and north-west of the village of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor. It lies to the south of the ...

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, and

Gorleston Gorleston-on-Sea (), known colloquially as Gorleston, is a town in the Borough of Great Yarmouth, in Norfolk, England, to the south of Great Yarmouth. Situated at the mouth of the River Yare it was a port town at the time of the Domesday Book ...

. Browne married Lucy, a daughter of John Astley, and as a result was presented to the

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Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

.C. J. Palmer, ''Perlustration of Great Yarmouth'', Vol. III
p. 357
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Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge Masters of Christ's College, Cambridge 1832 deaths 1766 births People from Poulton-le-Fylde {{UCambridge-stub