Feature Article
William Henry Browne (1846–1904)
William Henry Browne (1846-1904), miner and politician, was born on 13 September 1846 at Pimlico, London, son of William Henry Browne, stone-sawyer, and his wife Eliza, née Barton. He went to sea when 11, served for nine years in the merchant navy, and possibly also in the Royal Navy, and in 1866 became a goldminer at Araluen, New South Wales. He followed this occupation in the eastern colonies for the next twenty years. In Queensland he worked at Gympie, Herberton and Croydon, where he lost an...