Browne, Edward Harold

Title

Rt Revd Dr

First name(s)

Edward Harold

Surname

Browne

Position(s) held at King's College London

• Member of College Council, 1865-1883
• Life Governor, 1883-1891

Education & professional details

School, college and/or university attended

• Eton
• Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Qualifications

Prizes at Cambridge:

• Crosse Theological Scholarship
• Narrisian Prize
• Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholarship

Position(s) held (non King's College London)

• Crate, Gloucestershire (1840)
• St. James and then St. Sidwell's Exeter (1841)
• Vice-Principal and Professor of Hebrew, St. David's College, Lampeter (1843)
• Theological educator, Wales (to 1849)
• Vicar of Kenwyn, Cornwall
• Prebendary of Exeter
• Rector of Heavitree, Devonshire (1857)
• Canon Residentary, Exeter Cathedral.
• Norrisian Professor of Divinity, Cambridge
• Bishop of Ely
• Bishop of Winchester (1864-1880)

Professional activities

• Fellow and Tutor, Emmanuel College, Cambridge [to 1840]
• ex officio Prelate of the Order of the Garter
• Provisional Chancellor of Canterbury
• Visitor of Winchester College
• Visitor of New College, Oxford

Publications

• Pentateuch and Elohistic Psalms (London, 1863)
• Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles (1865)

Personal details

Date of birth

6 March 1811

Place of birth

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England

Date of death

18 December 1891

Place of death

Winchester, Hampshire, England

Obituary

The Times (London, England), Saturday, Dec 19, 1891; pg. 5; Issue 33512.

Family details

Parents were Colonel Robert Browne, J.P., D.L or Mortonhouse, Bucks and Sarah Dorothea Steward. Married Elizabeth Carlyon on 18 June 1840