Percy Basil Browne (2 May 1923 – 5 March 2004) was an English businessman, farmer, amateur jockey and Conservative Party politician.
After the war he took up farming in Devon with his first wife, Pamela Exham, who died after a hunting accident.
Browne was selected by the Conservative party to fight the 1959 general election in the Labour-held Gloucester constituency, but was persuaded to stand instead in Torrington, which had been won the Liberal Mark Bonham Carter in a by-election in 1958.
[1] Browne agreed to stand on condition that he did have to undergo the usual process of appearing before a selection committee.
He refused the offer of a post as Parliamentary Private Secretary because it would have restrained his freedom to criticise the Conservative government, and in Who's Who he listed "whip-baiting" as one of his hobbies.