Thomas Browne (died 1597)

Sir Thomas Browne
Died	9 February 1597
Spouse(s)	Mabel Fitzwilliam Helen or Ellen Harding
Children	Sir Matthew Browne Jane Browne Mabel Browne Richard Browne
Parent(s)	Henry Browne, Katherine Shelley

Thomas Browne (died 9 February 1597), of Betchworth Castle, Surrey, was an English politician.

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.

After the death of his second wife, Mary, Henry Browne married Eleanor Shirley, the daughter of Thomas Shirley (d.1545) of West Grinstead, Sussex, by Elizabeth Gorges, the daughter of Marmaduke Gorges.

After the death of Henry Browne, his widow, Eleanor, married, by licence dated 15 February 1548, William Sackville (d. 19 May 1556) of Bletchingley, Surrey.

By his father's first marriage to Katherine Shelley Thomas Browne had an only sister, Mary Browne, who married Cuthbert Blagden, gentleman. By his father's third marriage to Eleanor Shirley, Browne had five half brothers, Richard, Roger, John, Alexander, and Jasper, and two half sisters, Katherine Browne, who married a husband surnamed Hill, and Elizabeth Browne.

Browne was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.

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