William Browne (Mayor of the Calais Staple)

Browne's Hospital
The steeple of Stamford's All Saints Church was funded and built by Browne.

Sir William Browne (1410 – 14 April 1489) was Lord Mayor and Merchant of the Staple of Calais, France; and founder of Browne's Hospital, a medieval almshouse and listed building in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England.