Isaac Hawkins Browne (coalowner)

Isaac Hawkins Browne (7 December 1745—30 May 1818) was the only son of Isaac Hawkins Browne (poet) (1705-60). After making a grand tour in 1775–1776, he settled on his estates at Badger. [J. M. Scott, rev. Stephen M. Lee, 'Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1745–1818)' in "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" (2004), article 3678 (accessed 27 Aug 2006). ] He also owned property at Malinslee in Dawley, Shropshire, now part of the town of Telford, which included Old Park. In 1790, he opened coal mines on his estate and leased enough land in Old Park to enable Thomas Botfield to build the Old Park ironworks there. Browne supported a Sunday School at Malinlee from 1799, and orgainised building a church there, St. Leonard, consecrated in 1805 and designed by Thomas Telford. This was intended to replace the parish church, but that was opened in 1818. [B. Trinder, "Industrial Revolution in Shropshire" (3rd edn, Phillimore, Chichester, 2000), 82-4 190 194. ]

Browne was one of the members of Parliament for Bridgnorth from 1784 to 1812, supporting the ministries of William Pitt the younger, Henry Addington, the Duke of Portland, and Spencer Perceval.

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