William Browne:
(born 1591?, Tavistock, Devonshire, Eng.—died 1645?)
English poet, author of Britannia’s Pastorals (1613–16) and other pastoral and miscellaneous verse.
Browne studied at the University of Oxford and entered the Inner Temple in 1611. Between 1616 and 1621 he lived in France. In 1623 he became tutor to Robert Dormer, the future Earl of Carnarvon, accompanying him to Eton and Oxford. His later life appears to have been spent near Dorking, Surrey.
