Edward Harold Browne
6 March 1811 -
18 December 1891

Family

Edward Harold Browne was the second son of Col. Robert Browne of Morton House, in Buckinghamshire, and of Sarah Dorothea Steward. In 1840 he married Elizabeth Carlyon.

Education

He was educated at Eton and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. After securing his B.A. in 1832, he won the Crosse theological scholarship in 1833, the Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholarship in 1834, and the Norrisian prize in 1835. He graduated with his M.A. in 1836, was elected fellow of Emmanuel in 1837, and appointed senior tutor in 1838. In 1854 he was elected Norrisian Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. He took the B.D. in 1855 and the D.D. in 1864.

Church Appointments and Service

He was ordained deacon in 1837 and priest in the following year. In 1841 he accepted a curacy in Exeter, but in 1843 moved to Wales as Vice-Principal of St. David's College. In 1849, he took a rectorship in Cornwall, to which was attached a prebendal stall in Exeter Cathedral, which he exchanged in 1857 for a canonry in the same. On 29 March 1864 he was consecrated Bishop of Ely. In December 1873, he was translated to the See of Winchester, which he resigned in 1890.

Noteworthy Publications

In addition to numerous sermons and pamphlets, Browne published The Fulfillment of the Old Testament Prophecies relating to the Messiah, his Norrisian prize (1836), An Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles (1850-53), The Pentateuch and the Elohistic Psalms (1863), and contributed as essay on Inspiration to Aids of Faith (1862).

Footnote

Browne "sought to hold a middle course between opposing church parties" and "proved himself an excellent administrator." -- DNB 22: 304