Author: Browne, Thomas
Biography:
BROWNE, Thomas (1771-98: findmypast.com)
Son of a clergyman (also Thomas Browne), he was born in Lastingham, Yorkshire, baptised there on 9 July 1771, and educated at the grammar school in Hull. He taught school for a time but in 1797 he was ordained in York on 9 July, married Ann Estill at Bridlington on 24 Aug., and then moved to Hull to be the editor of the Hull Advertiser, where he published occasional poems under the pseudonym "Alexis." He died at Hull, aged 25, on 9 July 1798. The volume of his poems published posthumously with a memoir in 1800 was intended to raise money for his widow and their child. Two poems, "The Invasion" and "Awd Daisy" were reprinted in some editions of Specimens of the Yorkshire Dialect after 1800. (findmypast.com 24 July 2025; CCEd 24 July 2025; John Merritt, "Preface," in Browne's Poems [1800]) HJ