William Browne (Mayor of the Calais Staple)
Sir William Browne (1410 – 14 April 1489) was Lord Mayor and Merchant of the Staple of Calais, France; and founder of Browne's Hospital, a medieval almshouse and listed building in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England.
Career
Browne was a rich wool merchant. He was
Personal life
He descended from the family of Brownes of Rutland. His parents were John (d. 1442) and Margaret (d. 1460) Browne. There was at least one sibling, a younger brother, John Browne.[2] William Browne married Dame Margaret Stock (or Stokke, or Stokes) (d. 28 October 1489), heiress of the manor house of Warmington. They had at least two children, daughters Agnes[3] and Elizabeth (c. 1441–1511) who married Sir John Elmes and lived at Lilford Hall. Browne and his wife both died in 1489, and were buried in All Saints' Church's south chapel.[4]
References
- ^ "Biography of William Browne Esq". The Lilford Estate. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
- ^ Drakard, John (1822). The history of Stamford, in the county of Lincoln: comprining its ancient, progressive, and modern state: with an account of St. Martin's, Stamford Baron, and Great and Little Wothorpe, Northamptonshire (Public domain ed.). Printed by and for J. Drakard. p. 277.
- ^ Notes and queries (Public domain ed.). Oxford University Press. 1888. p. 102.
- ^ Bond, Henry (1855). Family memorials: Genealogies of the families and descendants of the early settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston: to which is appended the early history of the town (Public domain ed.). Little, Brown & company. p. 118.
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