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 346 BROWNE BROWNING her of poems, afterward collected as " Sketch- es from the Antique " (1844). About the same time a volume of "Sacred Poems " appeared. In 1842 she was married to Mr. James Gray, a nephew of the Ettrick Shepherd. BROWNE, Simon, an English theologian, born at Shepton-Mallet, Somersetshire, in 1680, died in 1732. He was pastor of dissenting congre- gations in Portsmouth and London. In 1723, after the sudden death of his wife and only son, he conceived that the Almighty had taken away from him his rational soul, resigned his pas- toral office, withdrew to his native town, and refused all society. Yet it was during this re- tirement that he published his principal works, which were directed against the opinions of Woolston and Tindal, and which display learn- ing and a vigorous understanding. BROWNE, Sir Thomas, an English physician and author, born in London, Oct. 19, 1605, died at Norwich, Oct. 19, 1682. After study- ing at Oxford he took his degree at Lcyden, returned to England, and in 1636 established himself at Norwich. His first work, Keligio Medici, appeared in 1642. It was a sort of confession of faith, remarkable for its quaint and original fancy, was soon translated into Latin and several continental languages, and gave him a wide reputation. This was fol- lowed in 1646 by his " Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or Inquiry into Vulgar Errors," the learning displayed in which is such that it has been called a cyclopaedia of contemporary knowl- edge. Subsequently appeared his " Hydriota- phia, Urn Burial, or Discourse on Sepulchral Urns." His style abounds in felicitous expres- sions, but in his eagerness for brevity he often becomes obscure, and no other writer has so freely formed English words from the Latin. His " Christian Morals," a posthumous work, appeared first in 1716, and afterward, with a life of the author by Dr. Johnson, in 1756. His collected works, first published in folio in 1686, were edited by Wilkin (4 vols. 8vo, 1836), and reprinted in Bohn's "Antiquarian Library " (3 vols.). BROWNE, William, an English poet, born at Tavistock, Devonshire, in 1590, died about 1645. He was educated at Oxford, and was af- terward tutor successively to the earls of Car- narvon and of Pembroke. His principal poeti- cal works are entitled "Britannia's Pastorals" (1613-'16), and the Shepherd's Pipe" (1614). They contain some fine descriptive passages, and were admired by Selden and Ben Jonson. BROWNE, William George, an English traveller, born in London in 1768, died in Persia in 1813. He was educated at Oxford, travelled in Egypt, and attempted to explore the interior of Africa, but was stopped in Darfoor, where he was de- tained as a captive for three years. He pub- lished "Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, in the years 1792-'98" (London, 1799 ; 2d ed. enlarged, 1806). He afterward undertook a journey through Persia, but on the way from Tabriz to Teheran was murdered by banditti. BROWNELL, Henry Howard, an American au- thor, born in Providence, R. I., Feb. 6, 1820, died in East Hartford, Conn., Oct. 31, 1872. He graduated at Washington (Trinity) college, Hartford, in 1841, and subsequently studied law, and was admitted to the bar, but turned his attention more especially to teaching and to authorship. A volume of his " Poems " was published in New York in 1847. He after- ward wrote " The People's Book of Ancient and Modern History" (Hartford, 1851), and " The Discoverers, Pioneers, and Settlers of North and South America" (Boston, 1853). In the latter part of 1863 he entered the navy, and served as an acting ensign on the staff of Admiral Farragut. During the war he pub- lished several spirited and popular poems, which were gathered in a volume entitled "Lyrics of a Day, or Newspaper Poetry, by a Volunteer in the U. S. Service " (New York, 1864). After the war he accompanied Ad- miral Farragut to Europe, and then resigned and returned to Hartford. In 1866 a volume of his " War Lyrics and other Poems " was published in Boston. BROWNELL, Thomas Chnreh, D. D., LL.D., an American clergyman, born at Westport, Mass., Oct. 19, 1779, died in Hartford, Conn., Jan. 13, 1865. He was the son of a farmer, and was educated at Bristol academy, Taunton, at Rhode Island college (now Brown university), and at Union college, where he graduated in 1804. The next year he became tutor in Union college, in 1807 professor of belles-lettres and moral philosophy, and in 1809. was chosen the first professor of chemistry and mineralogy. The following year was spent in travelling through Great Britain and Ireland, and in gathering materials and apparatus for the de- partment under his charge. In 1813 he began to turn his attention to preparation for the ministry, and having become an Episcopalian was ordained by Bishop Hobart, in Trinity church, New York, April 11, 181P>. In con- nection with his professional duties he gave himself to the work of a missionary in Sche- nectady and its vicinity. In the summer of 1818 he became an assistant minister in Trinity church, New York. He was consecrated bish- op of Connecticut Oct. 27, 1819, and removed at once to his new field of labor. Washington (now Trinity) college, at Hartford, Conn., took its rise under his auspices in 1824; he was its first president, resigning in 1831. He became presiding bishop in 1852, upon the death of Bishop Chase of Illinois. He was author of " The Family Prayer Book," which contains a commentary, historical, explanatory, doctrinal, and practical, on the liturgy of the Episcopal church. In 1839-'40 he prepared the " Religion of the Heart and Life " (5 vols. 12mo), a com- pilation from the best writers on experimental and practical piety, with introductions, &c. BROWNLNG, Elizabeth Barrett, an English poet- ess, born at Hope End, near Ledbury, Here- fordshire, in 1809, died in Florence, Italy, June