Sir Richard Browne, 1st Baronet of Deptford (c. 1605 – 12 February 1682/83) was English ambassador to the court of France at Paris from 1641 to 1660.
[2] Browne played the part of Diana in Robert White's 'Masque of Cupid's Banishment' performed for Anne of Denmark at Deptford on 4 May 1617.
[3] He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, on 26 June 1623, aged eighteen, and gained the degree of BA as a member of St Alban Hall the same year.
He became a fellow of Merton in 1624, and proceeded to MA on 28 July 1628, having become a student of Gray's Inn in 1627 and esquire of the bedchamber to King Charles I.
Being a Royalist he could not easily return to England to his family estate Sayes Court,[6][7] in Deptford, opposite the Naval Dockyard.