BROWNE, SIR BENJAMIN CHAPMAN British engineer, was born at Stout's Hill, Glos., on Aug. 26, and was apprenticed to the Elswick works near Newcastle-on-Tyne. He became an expert on harbour work and carried out harbour works at Tynemouth, Falmouth and in the Isle of Wight. In 187o he took over the locomotive works of R. and W. Hawthorn at Forth Banks; which in 1886 he combined with those of Andrew Leslie and Co., and until 1916 was chairman of the combination. He was knighted in 1887. He died at Westacre, Newcastle-on Tyne, on March I,