Sir Nicholas Walker Browne, KBE, CMG was a British diplomat.
14 Facts About Nicholas Browne
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Nicholas Browne served as Ambassador to Iran from 1999 to 2002 and Ambassador to Denmark from 2003 to 2006.
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Nicholas Browne was the third of four sons born to Gordon Browne, a World War II British Army officer and later a member of the intelligence services.
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Nicholas Browne was educated at Cheltenham College, a public school in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
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Nicholas Browne won an open scholarship to study History at University College, Oxford.
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Nicholas Browne captained the college rugby team, playing as hooker.
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In 1969, after his graduation from university, Nicholas Browne joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Nicholas Browne's first posting to Iran was as Third Secretary in Tehran from 1971 to 1974.
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Nicholas Browne served in London as a Foreign and Commonwealth Office counsellor.
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Nicholas Browne was promoted to ambassador in 1999 and oversaw the visit to Tehran in late September 2001 by then foreign minister Jack Straw, the first visit to the country by a senior British government minister since the 1979 Revolution.
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Nicholas Browne left Iran in 2002 and was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in that year's Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of his work as ambassador.
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Nicholas Browne served as Ambassador to Denmark from 2003 to 2006.
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Nicholas Browne died on 13 January 2014 in Somerset, aged 66.
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Nicholas Browne was an avid rock fan with a large collection of vinyls.