BROWNE, EDWARD GRANVILLE British orientalist, was born at Uley, Gloucestershire. Educated at Trinity college, Glenalmond, and then at Eton and Pembroke college, Cambridge, he studied medicine and oriental languages. In 1887 he was elected a fellow of his college, in the same year qualifying M.B. at St. Bartholomew's hospital, London, but he never practised as a doctor. In 1887-88 he travelled in Persia, becoming afterwards lecturer in Persian at Cambridge. In 1902 he was appointed Adams Professor of Arabic at Cambridge, a post he held until his death. Browne's published works include A Traveller's Narrative (1891), re-issued in 1926 under the title A Year amongst the Persians; Literary History of Persia until the time of Firdawsi (1902), continuations of which were pub lished in 1906, 1920 and 1924; The Persian Revolution, (1910) ; a translation of Chahar Magala, with notes (1 921) ; and Arabian Medicine (1921).