Thomas Browne (Master of Christ's College, Cambridge) explained

Thomas Browne (1766–1832) was a priest and academic in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.^[1]

Browne was born in Poulton-le-Fylde. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1786; MA in 1789; and BD in 1796. He became Fellow in 1791; and was Master from 1808 to 1814.^[2] He held livings at Little Snoring, Seaton Ross, Bere Ferrers, Bourn, and Gorleston.

Browne married Lucy, a daughter of John Astley, and as a result was presented to the benefice of Gorleston in Norfolk.^[3]

Notes and References

1. [Alumni Cantabrigienses|Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900]
2. Web site: Masters of Christ's College since 1505. christs.cam.ac.uk. 2018-11-06.
3. C. J. Palmer, Perlustration of Great Yarmouth, Vol. III, p. 357