BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839-1896), Anglo-Indian engin eer and administrator, was the son of Robert Browne of Falkirk in Scotland. He was educated at the military college, Addiscombe, and received a commission in the Bengal Engineers in 1857. He served in the expedition against the Mahsud Waziris (186o), in the Umbeyla campaign (1863), in the Afghan War (1878-79) as political officer and in the Egyptian campaign (1882). In 1884 he was appointed engineer in chief of the Sind-Pishin railway. In 1888 he was made a K.C.S.I. and in 1889 quartermaster-general for India. In 1892 he was appointed agent to the governor-general in Baluchistan, in succession to Sir Robert Sandeman, his intimate experience of the Baluchis, gained during his railway work, having specially fitted him for this post. He died suddenly June 13, 1896.
See General McLeod Innes, The Life and Times of Sir James Browne (1905).