BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS English poet, was born on Jan. 21, 1705, at Burton-on-Trent, of which place his father was vicar, and died in London on Feb. 14, 1760. He was educated at Lichfield, at Westminster school, and at Trinity college, Cambridge. He was called to the bar, but never practised. He was the author of "Design and Beauty," a poem addressed to his friend Joseph Highmore, the painter; and of "The Pipe of Tobacco" which parodied Cibber, Ambrose, Philips, Thomson, Young, Pope and Swift, who were then all living. In he published his chief work, De Animi Immortalitate, a Latin poem much admired by the scholars of his time. Johnson calls him "one of the first wits of this country." Two editions of his Poems on Various Subjects, Latin and English, were published in 1767 by his son Isaac Hawkins Browne (1745-1818) , the author of two vols. of essays on religion and morals. A full account by Andrew Kippis in Biographia Britannica (178o) includes large extracts from his poems.