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English clergyman (1601–1643)
Jonathan Browne (1601 – 19 December 1643) was an Anglican clergyman,
Dean of Hereford from 1637 until his death.
[1]
Browne was educated at
Gloucester Hall, Oxford , matriculating on 13 October 1620, aged 19, and graduating
BCL (1625),
DCL (1630).
[2]
He held the following church preferments:
[2]
He died on 19 December 1643,
[4] and was buried at Hertingfordbury, without any memorial.
[5] His will (undated and unregistered) was proved on 8 April 1645.
[6]
Family
On 20 January 1631, Browne married Anne Lovelace née Barne,
[7] daughter of
Sir William Barne , widow of Sir William Lovelace, mother by her first marriage of
Richard Lovelace the poet and
Francis Lovelace , colonial Governor of New York.
Browne's daughter Anne married
Herbert Croft , who succeeded Browne as Dean of Hereford, then became
Bishop of Hereford .
Browne's grandson (Croft and Anne's son) was
Sir Herbert Croft
Bt
MP .
[8]
References
^ Horn, Joyce M. (ed.). "Deans of Hereford". Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857 . Vol. 13.
^
a
b
Foster, Joseph (1891).
Alumni Oxonienses: Browne, Jonathan . p.
195 . Retrieved 6 October 2019 .
^
Pearce, Ernest Harold (1913).
Sion College and Library . CUP Archive. p.
343 . Retrieved 6 October 2019 .
^
a
b Horn, Joyce M. (ed.).
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857 . Vol. 7. pp. 77–78. Retrieved 6 October 2019 .
^ Havergal, Francis T. (1869).
Antiquarian Memorials of Hereford . Fasti Herefordenses. p.
40 . Retrieved 6 October 2019 .
^ Oxford Wills; Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1645
^ Dorman, John Frederick, ed. (2005).
Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607–1624/5 . Vol. 2 (4th ed.). p. 472.
ISBN
9780806317632 . Retrieved 6 October 2019 .
^
"Croft, Sir Herbert, 1st Bt" . The History of Parliament . Retrieved 6 October 2019 .
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