Family and Education
b. 4 Oct. 1754, 2nd but o. surv. s.He was the only child to reach maturity. See Hutchins, Dorset, ii. 298; Gent. Mag. (1833), i. 465. of George Browne of Frampton by w. Mary née Kingsbury. m. 11 Aug. 1796,There is a reference in Gent. Mag. (1791), i. 279 to a marriage between ‘F.T. Browne esq. MP for the county of Dorset and Miss Baring, o. da. of John Baring, esq. MP for Exeter’ (25 (Mar.). It probably came from the Morning Chron., which promised the marriage on 25 Mar. and, on 28 Mar., reported it as having taken place on 25 Mar. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, but it was ‘an idle electioneering report, circulated after the decision of the Exeter election committee’ (Gent. Mag. i. 379). Frances, da. of Rev. John Richards of Long Bredy, s.p. suc. fa. 1777.
Offices Held
Sheriff, Dorset 1783 – 84; capt. Dorset yeomanry 1795.
Main residence: Frampton, nr. Dorchester, Dorset.
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Commons 1790-1820
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BROWNE, Francis John (1754-1833)
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