Early years

Browne was the son of the Rev. Henry John Browne, rector of Crownthorpe, Norfolk

Norfolk

Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Corpus Christi College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is notable as the only college founded by Cambridge townspeople: it was established in 1352 by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary...

, where he was Bell Scholar in 1823. He graduated B.A. in 1826, and M.A. in l830.

Career

From 1842 to 1847 he was principal of the theological college, Chichester

Chichester

Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, within the historic County of Sussex, South-East England. It has a long history as a settlement; its Roman past and its subsequent importance in Anglo-Saxon times are only its beginnings...

. On 9 December 1842 he was collated to the prebendal stall of Waltham in Chichester Cathedral

Chichester Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, otherwise called Chichester Cathedral, is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Chichester. It is located in Chichester, in Sussex, England...

, and in 1843 he was appointed examining chaplain to the bishop of Chichester. In 1854 he was preferred to the parish of Pevensey

Pevensey

Pevensey is a village and civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. The main village is located 5 miles north-east of Eastbourne, one mile inland from Pevensey Bay. The settlement of Pevensey Bay forms part of the parish.-Geography:The village of Pevensey is located on...

 in the same diocese. Here he remained till his death, 19 June 1875.

Publications

Besides editions and translations of the classics, Browne applied himself chiefly to the elucidation of sacred chronology. His published works are:

• Ordo Sæculorum (1844), a treatise on the chronology of Holy Scripture.' The argument is mainly on the same lines as Henry Fynes Clinton
  Henry Fynes Clinton
  Henry Fynes Clinton was an English classical scholar and chronologist.-Life:He was born in Gamston, Nottinghamshire; for some generations his family bore the name of Fynes, but his father resumed the older family name of Clinton in 1821...
  
  's. Contemporary knowledge of oriental archæology is brought to bear on biblical statements.
• Examination of the Ancient Egyptian Chronographies, begun in 1852 in Thomas Kerchever Arnold
  Thomas Kerchever Arnold
  Thomas Kerchever Arnold was an English theologian and voluminous writer of educational worksArnold was born in 1800. His father, Thomas George Arnold, was a doctor of Stamford. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, was seventh junior optime in the mathematical tripos of 1821, and was...
  
  's Theological Critic.
• Remarks on Mr. Greswell's "Fasti Catholici" (1852). Negative criticism of the conclusions of Edward Greswell
  Edward Greswell
  -Life:The son of the Rev. William Parr Greswell, he was born at Denton near Manchester, on 3 August 1797. He was educated by his father and at Manchester Grammar School. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, on 5 April 1815, and was elected scholar in the same year. Early in 1816 he...
  
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• He translated for the Library of the Fathers
  Library of the Fathers
  The Library of the Fathers, more properly A library of fathers of the holy Catholic church: anterior to the division of the East and West, was a series of around 50 volumes of the Church Fathers, annotated in English translation, published 1838 to 1881 by John Henry Parker...
  
  seventeen short treatises of Augustine of Hippo
  Augustine of Hippo
  Augustine of Hippo , also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin, St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed, was Bishop of Hippo Regius . He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived in the Roman Africa Province...
  
   with Charles Lewis Cornish, and also Augustine's Homilies on the Gospel and First Epistle of St. John (from 1838).
• Several volumes of Greek and Latin classics for Arnold's School and College Series (from 1851).
• A translation of Johan Nicolai Madvig
  Johan Nicolai Madvig
  Johan Nicolai Madvig , was a Danish philologist and Kultus Minister.He was born on the island of Bornholm. He was educated at the classical school of Frederiksborg and the University of Copenhagen. In 1828 he became reader, and in 1829 professor of Latin language and literature at Copenhagen, and...
  
  's Greek Syntax (1847).
• A Handbook of Hebrew Antiquities (1851).
• An English-Greek Lexicon, with Rädersdorf (1856).
• Hierogrammata (1848). The aim is to show that Egyptian discoveries do not invalidate the Mosaic account.
• He was also the author of several articles in the final edition (1862-6) of John Kitto
  John Kitto
  John Kitto was an English biblical scholar of Cornish descent.-Biography:Born in Plymouth, John Kitto was a sickly child, son of a Cornish stonemason. The drunkenness of his father and the poverty of his family meant that much of his childhood was spent in the workhouse. He had no more than three...
  
  's Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature.