Sir Nicholas Walker Browne, KBE, CMG (17 December 1947 – 14 January 2014) was a British diplomat.
[1] He was the third of four sons born to Gordon Browne, a World War II British Army officer and later a member of the intelligence services.
[2] He won an open scholarship to study History at University College, Oxford.
However, three weeks after he took up the post diplomatic relations were broken off between Britain and Iran due to the Rushdie Affair.
[3] From 1990 to 1994, he was posted to the United States; first to Washington, D.C. as press and public affairs counselor and then to New York City as British information head.
[3] He left Iran in 2002 and was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in that year's Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of his work as ambassador.
[3] In 1980, he had attended one of the last concerts by Bob Marley at the Rufaro Stadium, Salisbury, Zimbabwe.