Family
Thomas was born in 1402. He was the son and heir of Robert Browne and a nephew of Stephen Browne MP. Thomas Browne married Eleanor daughter and coheir of Thomas Fitzalan (third son of Lord Maltravers) in 1434. Eleanor later remarried, to Sir Thomas Vaughan in 1461. Thomas had seven sons and several daughters:
- Sir George Browne, Knt, was M.P. Surrey. Knighted after the Battle of Tewkesbury, but attainted as a rebel and beheaded by Richard III of England in 1483. His estates were confiscated, but were afterwards restored to his heirs in 1485 by Henry VII.
- Thomas Browne.
- Robert Browne of Chilham, Kent, married Anne.
- Sir Anthony Browne; Standard bearer for England.
- William Browne (of Tavistock, Devon).
- Leonard Browne.
- Edward Browne.
- Katherine Browne, married Humphrey Sackville of Buckhurst, Sussex (1426 – 24 January 1488).
- Jane Browne.
Read more about this topic: Thomas Browne (High Sheriff Of Kent)
Famous quotes containing the word family:
“Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.”
—Lois Wyse (20th century)
“If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all—both old and young.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker’s productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband’s pain and suffering.”
—Gloria Steinem (20th century)