Foster: Possibly Brown, Thomas, s. William, of Newport, Salop, pleb. Christ Church, matric 4 July 1678, aged 15; BA 20 Mar 1683-4, Addison's 'Tom Brown of facetious memory', master of the Free School at Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, died 16 June 1704, buried in Westminster Abbey the 22nd. See Chester, 254; Ath., iv, 662; Rawlinson, v, 143, 263; DNB.