John Ernest Douglas Delavalette Browne (born 17 October 1938) is a British former politician, soldier, investment banker and writer now based in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States of America.
Browne was born in Hampshire, raised on a family farm near Bath, and educated at Malvern College, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Cranfield Institute of Technology and Harvard Business School.
In particular, if you were the director of a large company, like ICI, with many thousands of clients, their voluminous declarations would make a mockery of the registry".
He worked for Euro Pacific Capital, NY (founded by Peter Schiff) as its Senior Market Strategist.
He is a Liveryman of the Goldsmiths Company, an Officer of the Order of Saint John (where he served on Chapter General from 1987 to 1990) and a Governor of Malvern College.
He is the author of two books, Gossip Girl (short, fun reminiscences of a life associated with the Grenadier Guards, 1956 to 2006) in 2006 and Hidden Account of the Romanovs (2013).