title: Thomas Browne (Master of Christ's College, Cambridge)
text: # Thomas Browne (Master of Christ's College, Cambridge)
  
  Thomas Browne (1766–1832) was a priest and academic in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
  
  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. 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.
  
  