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Thomas Browne, polymath, 1605 - 1682 Thomas Browne D.D. (c. 1605 – 6 December 1673) was a
Canon of Windsor from 1639 to 1673.
Career
He was educated at
Christ Church, Oxford, and was senior
proctor in 1636.
He was appointed:
*Rector of
St Mary Aldermary
The Guild Church of St Mary Aldermary a contraction of St Mary Aldermanbury (or St Mary Elder Mary) is an Anglican church located in Watling Street at the junction with Bow Lane, in the City of London. Of medieval origin, it was rebuilt from 15 ...
1638–1641
*Rector of Oddington, Oxfordshire 1640
*Domestic chaplain to Archbishop Laud and King Charles I
*Domestic chaplain to Mary Princess of Orange during the Commonwealth period.
He was appointed to the first stall in
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is both a Royal Peculiar (a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch) and the Chapel of the Order of the Gart ...
, in 1639, and held the stall until 1673. He was buried in the chapel.
Works
Browne wrote:
*''Tomus alter et idem, a History of the Life and Reign of that famous Princess Elizabeth'', a translation of vol. ii. of
William Camden
William Camden (2 May 1551 – 9 November 1623) was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of ''Britannia'', the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and the ''Ann ...
's ''Annals'', to which he added an "Appendix containing animadversions upon several passages", 1629;
* ''Concio ad Clerum'', or ''A Discourse of the Revenues of the Clergy … in a sermon preached … before the university upon taking a B.D. degree 8 June 1637'', preserved in ''The Present State of Letters''; *''A Key to the King's Cabinet, or Animadversions upon the three printed Speeches of Mr. L'Isle, Mr. Tate, and Mr. Browne, spoken in London, 3 July 1645'', Oxford, 1645;
*''A Treatise in defence of Hugo Grotius'', Hague, 1646;
*''Dissertatio de Therapeuticis Philonis'', published with ''The Interpretation of the Two Books of Clement by other writers'', 1689.
Isaac Vossius
Isaak Vossius, sometimes anglicised Isaac Voss (1618 in Leiden – 21 February 1689 in Windsor, Berkshire) was a Dutch scholar and manuscript collector.
Life
He was the son of the humanist Gerhard Johann Vossius. Isaak formed what was accou ...
was Browne's major legatee, and his papers went to Amsterdam and Leiden.
Notes
;Attribution
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1600s births
1673 deaths
Canons of Windsor
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford