Patrick Browne

Sir Patrick Reginald Evelyn Browne, PC, OBE, TD (28 May 1907 – 1 October 1996) was an English judge, who was a Lord Justice of Appeal between 1974 and 1980. Biography Patrick Browne was born in Cambridge, the son of Edward Granville Browne, a leading Cambridge Orientalist, and of Alice Caroline Browne, daughter of the historian Francis Henry Blackburne Daniell. His grandfather was Sir Benjamin Chapman Browne, head of the shipbuilding and engineering firm R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company. His father died in 1924 and his mother died the following year. Browne was educated at Eton College, before going up to Pembroke College, Cambridge (honorary fellow, 1975), where his father had been a fellow, in 1925, the year of his mother's death. He read Law and was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1931. The same year, he married Evelyn Sophie Alexandra (d 1966), daughter of the archaeologist Sir Charles Walston, a family friend. They had two daughters, the elder of which was Harriet Crawford. After Evelyn's death, he married Lena Atkinson in 1977. On the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, he joined the Royal Horse Artillery, and was employed in the planning of air defence at the War Office, becoming a GSO1 and a lieutenant-colonel. He was appointed an OBE (Military Division) in 1945.