BROWNE, Sir Anthony (c.1500-48), of Battle Abbey and Cowdray Park, Suss.

Family and Education

b. c. 1500, 1st s. of Sir Anthony Browne by Lucy, da. and coh. of John Neville, Marquess of Montagu; half-bro. of William Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton. m. (1) by 1528, Alice, da. of Sir John Gage of Firle, Suss., 7s. inc. Anthony I 3da.; (2) 1542, Elizabeth, da. of Gerald Fitzgerald, 9th Earl of Kildare, 2s.; 1s. 1da. illegit. suc. fa. 1506. Kntd. 1 July 1522; KG nom. 23 Apr., inst. 19 May 1540.Browne’s parents married in or after 1497 and his fa. died in 1506. R. E. Brock, ‘The Courtier in Early Tudor Soc.’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1964), 26, 336, 338-40; PCC 10 Coode; LP Hen. VIII, xv.

Offices Held

Surveyor and master of hunt, castles and lordship of Hatfield, Thorne and Conisbrough, Yorks 1518; knight of the body 1522; lt. I.o.M. 1525; gent. privy chamber 1526, ambassador, France 1527, jt. (with Sir Edward Guildford) standard bearer 1528 – 34, sole 1534 – 46, jt. (with s. Anthony) 1546 – d.; j.p. Surr. 1532 – d., Suss. 1544 – d.; master of the horse 1539 – d.; PC by 1539 – d.; capt. of gent. pens. 1540 – d.; commr. subsidy, Household 1540, benevolence, Surr. 1544/45, musters, Berks., Hants, Oxon., Surr., Suss. and Wilts. 1545; other commissions 1535 – 46; master of the King’s harriers 1543 – d.; numerous minor offices. Brock, 40, 162, 318–19; LP Hen. VIII, ii-vi, xi-xv, xvii, xviii, xx, xxi, add.; The Gen. n.s. xxx. 19; Lansd. 2(11), f. 34; CPR, 1547–8, pp. 90, 240; A. F. Pollard, Eng. under Protector Somerset, 77; PPC, vii. 49; E371/300, m. 47, 304, r. 47.

Parlimentarian

BROWNE, Sir Anthony (c.1500-48), of Battle Abbey and Cowdray Park, Suss.

Main residences: Battle Abbey; Cowdray Park, Suss.

Author

S.R.J.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

BROWNE, Sir Anthony (c.1500-48)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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