The Browne medals are gold medals which since 1774 have been awarded for annual competitions in Latin

Latin poetry

The history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...

 and Greek poetry at Cambridge University.

Sir William Browne

William Browne (physician)

-Life:Browne was born in County Durham, and was educated in Durham and at Peterhouse, Cambridge. After graduating, he worked as a doctor in King's Lynn, Norfolk, for more than thirty years before moving to Bloomsbury, London, in 1749...

, who had been president of the College of Physicians, died in 1774. His will left an endowment to the university:
The endowment, invested as a trust fund called the Browne Fund, is still used to encourage classical study at the university.

External links

• Cambridge University - Browne Medal
• 1865 Browne Medal at the British Museum
  British Museum
  The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its...