Editing Thomas Browne (section)

=== Early life ===
Thomas Browne was born in the parish of [[St Michael-le-Querne|St Michael]], [[Cheapside]], in London on 19 October 1605. He was the youngest child of Thomas Browne, a [[silk]] merchant from [[Upton-by-Chester|Upton, Cheshire]], and Anne Browne, the daughter of Paul Garraway of [[Lewes]], [[Sussex]]. He had an elder brother and two elder sisters.{{sfn|Robbins|2004}} The family, who had lived at Upton for several generations, were "evidently people of some importance" who "intermarried with families of position in that neighbourhood", and were [[armiger]]ous. Browne's paternal grandmother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of Henry Birkenhead, [[Clerk of the Green Cloth]] to [[Elizabeth I of England]] and [[Clerk of the Crown]] for the counties of [[Cheshire]] and [[Flintshire]].{{sfn|Williams|1902|p=1}} Browne's father died while he was young, and his mother married Sir Thomas Dutton of [[Gloucester]] and [[Isleworth]], [[Middlesex]], by whom she had two daughters.{{sfn|Williams|1902|pp=5{{ndash}}6}}

[[File:Lady Dorothy Browne (née Mileham); Sir Thomas Browne by Joan Carlile.jpg|thumb|''[[Lady Dorothy Browne and Sir Thomas Browne]]'' ({{circa|1641–1650}}), by [[Joan Carlile]]]]
Browne was educated at [[Winchester College]].{{sfn|Breathnach|2005}} In 1623, he went to [[Broadgates Hall]] of [[Oxford University]]. Browne was chosen to deliver the undergraduate oration when the hall was incorporated as [[Pembroke College, Oxford|Pembroke College]] in August 1624. He graduated from Oxford in January 1627, after which he studied medicine at [[University of Padua|Padua]] and [[University of Montpellier|Montpellier]] universities, completing his studies at [[University of Leiden|Leiden]], where he received a [[Doctor of Medicine|medical degree]] in 1633.  He settled in [[Norwich]] in 1637 and practised medicine there until he died in 1682.{{sfn|Abbott|1996|p=296}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/21/the-adventures-of-sir-thomas-browne-in-the-21st-century-hugh-aldersey-williams-review |work=The Guardian |date=21 May 2015 |last=Burrow |first=Colin  |title=The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century by Hugh Aldersey-Williams – review |access-date=23 August 2023}}</ref> 

In 1641, Browne married Dorothy Mileham of [[Burlingham St Peter]], [[Norfolk]]. They had 10 children, six of whom died before their parents.{{sfn|Barbour|2013|pp=284{{ndash}}286}}