Frederick Henry Browning CBE (1 August 1870 – 13 October 1929) was an English first-class cricketer, rackets player and British Army officer. The son of Montague Charles Browning, he was born at Bury St Edmunds in August 1870. He was educated at Wellington College, where he played with some success for the college cricket eleven. He also played for the rugby team and excelled in rackets, playing in the college first pair for three years. From Wellington he went up to Magdalen College, Oxford. There he continued to excel in rackets and played cricket for Magdalen College, though he did not play for Oxford University Cricket Club. He left Oxford without completing his degree, choosing instead to become a wine merchant, shortly thereafter joining the family firm Twiss & Brownings, whose main