John Browne (1696–1750) of Forston, Charminster, Dorset, and Lincoln's Inn, London, was an English lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1750.
[2] At the 1727 British general election, Browne was returned unopposed as Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Dorchester on his family's interest.
He spoke in favour of the seamen's bill in January 1741 and was one of the Tories who withdrew on the motion for the removal of Walpole in February 1741.
He followed Pitt and Lyttleton in walking out of the House on 29 February 1744 during Lord Barrington's speech to defer the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act against the threatened French invasion.
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