Stanhope S. Browne ’53

At 6 feet 10 inches, Stan seemed to be an ideal candidate for Coach Cappy Cappon’s basketball team, but he stood tall on campus in Whig-Clio and other non-athletic activities. However, he did star on Coach Stan Sieja’s fencing squad.

Stan, the son of Samuel S.S. Browne ’26, came to Princeton from Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. As an upperclassman he roomed with Bill Black, his Terrace clubmate.

After graduating from Harvard Law School, where he edited the Harvard Law Review, he joined the Philadelphia law firm of Dechert, Price & Rhoads, specializing in fiduciary law with some international work, until his retirement in 1997.

Stan married Elizabeth “‘Libby” Sturges, a Wellesley graduate, in 1964. They were instrumental in Philadelphia’s Society Hill revival and the Penn’s Landing effort to develop the city’s waterfront. They spent four years in Brussels, where Stan represented his firm. After retirement he and Libby experienced a “glorious adventure” by living in Paris for three years.

Stan is survived by Libby; his daughter, Katrina Browne ’89, and her husband, John Bell ’75; two granddaughters; and sister Ann. Upon his June 29, 2013, death, Melissa Dribben wrote in The Philadelphia Inquirer that Stan “was a man of refined tastes, dry wit, intellectual precision, progressive political ideals, and physical grandeur …”