Isaac Hawkins Browne FRS (21 January 1705 – 14 February 1760) was an English politician and poet.

He is remembered as the author of some clever imitations of contemporary poets Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope on the theme of A Pipe of Tobacco (1736), somewhat analogous to the Rejected Addresses of a later day.

[3] A country gentleman and barrister, who had been called to the bar in 1728 from Lincoln's Inn,[3] he had great conversational powers.

[2] He was MP for Much Wenlock, Shropshire from 1744 to 1754, although he did not apparently contribute much in debates, Dr Johnson commenting that, ironically: Browne, one of the first great wits of this country, got into Parliament and never opened his mouth.

[citation needed] Browne, recalled by Dr Johnson (in 1773) to have drunk hard for thirty years,[4] died at his London home in Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury Square, on 14 February 1760.