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Thomas Browne

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Thomas Browne (died 9 February 1597), of Betchworth Castle, Surrey, was an English politician. Family Browne was a descendant of Sir Thomas Browne, Treasurer of the Household to Henry VI, and related in the male line to the Viscounts Montagu of Cowdray, Sussex, and in the female line to Lord Buckhurst. He was the eldest son of Henry Browne, esquire, of Betchworth Castle, Surrey, and his first wife, Katherine Shelley, the daughter of Sir William Shelley of Michelgrove in Clapham, Sussex, by Alice Belknap, daughter of Henry Belknap, esquire. After the death of his first wife, Alice, Henry Browne married Mary Fitz Herbert, daughter of John Fitz Herbert, by whom he had no issue.

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“When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.”
— Pseudodoxia Epidemica Book 5, Ch. 22, sect. 6
“Thus is man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live not only like other creatures in diverse elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds.”
— Section 34
“I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.”
— Section 3
“I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.”
— Section 11
“What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.”
— Chapter V. Cf Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars: "Tiberius," Ch 70
“The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.”
— Part III, Section XXIX

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Thomas Browne (died 9 February 1597), of Betchworth Castle, Surrey, was an English politician. Family Browne was a descendant of Sir Thomas Browne, Treasurer of the Household to Henry VI, and related in the male line to the Viscounts Montagu of Cowdray, Sussex, and in the female line to Lord Buckhurst. He was the eldest son of Henry Browne, esquire, of Betchworth Castle, Surrey, and his first wife, Katherine Shelley, the daughter of Sir William Shelley of Michelgrove in Clapham, Sussex, by Alice Belknap, daughter of Henry Belknap, esquire. After the death of his first wife, Alice, Henry Browne married Mary Fitz Herbert, daughter of John Fitz Herbert, by whom he had no issue.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Not who you're looking for? Others named Thomas Browne: English polymath and author (1605–1682) · priest and academic · Master of Pembroke 1694–1706 · English Member of Parliament and Chancellor of the Exchequer

Notable quotes

“When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.”
— Pseudodoxia Epidemica Book 5, Ch. 22, sect. 6
“Thus is man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live not only like other creatures in diverse elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds.”
— Section 34
“I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.”
— Section 3
“I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.”
— Section 11
“What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.”
— Chapter V. Cf Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars: "Tiberius," Ch 70
“The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.”
— Part III, Section XXIX

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.