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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Thomas Browne
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(1605–82, kt 1671)
Physician and writer, whose enquiring mind and rotundity of phrase ('Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth, and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives') have at all times won him faithful readers. His best-known works are Religio Medici (1642), an account of his religious convictions and personal philosophy; and Urn Burial (1658), in which the discovery of some funerary urns in Norfolk leads him into a wide-ranging discussion of burial practices and of death itself.
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