Thomas Browne (died 9 February 1597), of Betchworth Castle, Surrey, was an English politician.
Browne was a descendant of Sir Thomas Browne, Treasurer of the Household to Henry VI, and related in the male line to the Viscounts Montagu of Cowdray, Sussex, and in the female line to Lord Buckhurst.
[1][2] He was the eldest son of Henry Browne, esquire, of Betchworth Castle, Surrey, and his first wife, Katherine Shelley, the daughter of Sir William Shelley of Michelgrove in Clapham, Sussex, by Alice Belknap, daughter of Henry Belknap, esquire.
[3] After the death of Henry Browne, his widow, Eleanor, married, by licence dated 15 February 1548, William Sackville (d. 19 May 1556) of Bletchingley, Surrey.
After the death of William Harding, Cecily Marshe married Robert Warner,[6] who in 1557 purchased the wardship of her daughters, Helen (d.1601) and Katherine (d.1599).