BROWNE, WILLIAM GEORGE English traveller, was born at Great Tower Hill, London, on July 25 5768, and was educated at Oriel college, Oxford. He went out to Egypt in 1792. In May 1793 he set out for Darfur by the annual cara van. He was forcibly detained by the sultan of Darfur and was unable to effect his purpose of returning by Abyssinia. He was allowed to return to Egypt with the caravan in 1796. In 1799 he published his Travels in Africa, Egypt and Syria, from the year 1792 to 1798. In i800 Browne again left England, and spent three years in visiting Greece, some part of Asia Minor and Sicily. In 1812 he once more set out for the East, proposing to penetrate to Samarkand. He spent the winter in Smyrna, and in the spring of 1813 travelled through Asia Minor and Armenia, made a short stay at Erzerum, and arrived on June 1 at Tabriz. About the end of the summer of 1813 he left Tabriz for Teheran, intending to proceed to Tartary, but was shortly afterwards murdered. Robert Walpole published, in the second volume of his Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey (1820), from papers left by Browne, the account of his journey in 1802 through Asia Minor to Antioch and Cyprus; also, Remarks written at Constantinople (1802).