BROWNE, EDWARD, eldest son of Sir Thomas Browne, was physician to Charles II. and president of the Royal College of Physicians of London. He was born in 1644; and studied at Cambridge, and afterwards at Merton College, Oxford. He published a brief account of his travels in Hungary, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli; and likewise an ac-
count of several journeys through a great part of Germany. He also contributed some translations to an edition of Plutarch's Lives. He was acquainted with Hebrew, was a good Greek scholar, and no man of his age wrote better Latin. High Dutch, Italian, French, and other modern languages, were as familiar to him as his mother tongue. Charles II. said of him, "that he was as learned as any of the college, and as well bred as any at court." He died in 1708.