Browne, EDWARD HAROLD

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 489

Browne, EDWARD HAROLD, divine, was born 6th March 1811, at Morton House, Bucks, and educated at Eton, and at Emmanuel, Cambridge. He became fellow and tutor, professor of Hebrew at Lampeter (1841), and of Divinity at Cambridge (1854), Bishop of Ely (1864), and of Winchester (1873). His works comprise several volumes of sermons, a book on the Pentateuch, and the Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles (1850; 13th ed. 1887). He died 17th December 1891. See his Life by Dean Kitchin (1895).

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