Samuel Browne (MP for Rutland)

Samuel Browne (c. 1634–1691) was an English landowner and MP.

Biography

Samuel Browne was the son of John Brown of Stocken Hall, Stretton in the county of Rutland and a nephew of Samuel Browne (d. 1668).[1] He was admitted to Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1650,[2][1] and he succeeded his father c. 1639.[3]

He was appointed a militia commissioner by the Rump Parliament in 1659, and was M.P. for Rutland in the Convention Parliament of 1660, (his more famous and influential uncle was also a member of that parliament, member for the constituency of Bedfordshire).[1]

He served as deputy lieutenant for Rutland from 1671 to 1682 and from 1690 until his death and was appointed Sheriff of Rutland for 1676–77.[4]

Family

He married Anne (the daughter of John Tighe of Calceby, Lincolnshire) before 1655. They had a son who died before him and four daughters who survived him.[5]

Notes
  1. Henning 1983, p. 735.
  2. "Browne, Samuel (BRWN650S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. Henning 1983, p. 735 cites Vis. Rutland (Harl. Soc. lxxiii), 35-36; PCC 77 Vere.
  4. Helms & Cruickshanks 1983.
  5. Henning 1983, p. 735 cites VCH Rutland, i. 200-1, ii. 145-8; PCC 77 Vere.

References
  • Helms, M. W.; Cruickshanks, Eveline (1983), "Browne (Brown), Samuel II", in Henning, B.D. (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690, History of Parliament Online
  • Henning, Basil Duke (1983), The House of Commons, 1660-1690, Boydell & Brewer, p. 735, ISBN 978-0-436-19274-6


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