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<p> an English Congregational minister, was born at Clapham, February 14, 1790. He received a religious training, joined the Church at Hitchen in 1807, and in 1810 entered [[Rotherham]] College. During his college course he preached occasionally for the Congregational pastor at Hull, and at its close became his assistant. In 1818 he was ordained pastor at St. Albans, and after laboring here six years, he preached at [[Clapham]] until 1840. In 1833 he was appointed secretary of the Bible Society, and, the society requiring his undivided energies, he complied with its wishes in 1840 by resigning his pastoral charge, and continuing in its employ. In 1853 he removed to [[Tunbridge]] Wells. In 1854 he began writing the history of the Bible Society, and completed it in 1857. He resigned his office in 1859, and in 1862 removed to Weston-super-Mare, where he died, September 5 1868. Mr. Browne was remarkable for his gentlemanly and courteous bearing, his amiable and kind disposition, combined with great firmness of purpose. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1869, page 239. </p>
<p> archbishop of Dublin, I the first prelate who embraced the [[Reformation]] in Ireland. He was originally a friar of the order of St. Augustine, took the degree of D.D. in 1534, and in 1535 was made archbishop of Dublin. When Henry the Eighth ordered the monasteries to be destroyed, [[Archbishop]] Browne immediately ordered that every vestige of superstitious relics, of which there were many in the two cathedrals of Dublin, should be removed. He afterward caused the same to be done in the other churches of his diocese, and supplied their places with the Creed, the Ten Commandments, and the Lord's Prayer. In 1545, a command having been issued that the [[Liturgy]] of King [[Edward]] the Sixth should be compiled, it was violently opposed, and only by Browne's party received. Accordingly, on [[Easter]] day following, it was read in Christ Church, Dublin, in the presence of the mayor and the bailiffs of the city; when the archbishop delivered a judicious, learned, and able sermon against keeping the Bible in the Latin tongue and the worship of images. In October, 1051, the title of primate of all [[Ireland]] was conferred on Browne. On account of his zeal in the Reformation, he was deprived of his see by [[Queen]] Mary in 1554. He died in the year 1556. - Jones, [[Christian]] Biog. p. 71; Hook, Eccl. Biog. 3:175. </p>


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George Browne [1]

archbishop of Dublin, I the first prelate who embraced the Reformation in Ireland. He was originally a friar of the order of St. Augustine, took the degree of D.D. in 1534, and in 1535 was made archbishop of Dublin. When Henry the Eighth ordered the monasteries to be destroyed, Archbishop Browne immediately ordered that every vestige of superstitious relics, of which there were many in the two cathedrals of Dublin, should be removed. He afterward caused the same to be done in the other churches of his diocese, and supplied their places with the Creed, the Ten Commandments, and the Lord's Prayer. In 1545, a command having been issued that the Liturgy of King Edward the Sixth should be compiled, it was violently opposed, and only by Browne's party received. Accordingly, on Easter day following, it was read in Christ Church, Dublin, in the presence of the mayor and the bailiffs of the city; when the archbishop delivered a judicious, learned, and able sermon against keeping the Bible in the Latin tongue and the worship of images. In October, 1051, the title of primate of all Ireland was conferred on Browne. On account of his zeal in the Reformation, he was deprived of his see by Queen Mary in 1554. He died in the year 1556. - Jones, Christian Biog. p. 71; Hook, Eccl. Biog. 3:175.

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