Brown, John, D.D., a Congregational minister, was bom in Brooklyn, Ccnn., July 1, 1786, and grad- uated in Dartmouth in lx()9. In 1811 lie was appoint- ed tutor in Dartmouth, where he remained two years. On Dec. 8, 1813, he was ordained pastor in Cazenovia, N.Y. He was made D.D. by Union College 1827.
In 1829 he was ordained pastor of Pine Street Church, Boston. He removed to Hadley, Mass., 1831, and la- bored there as pastor until his death, March 22, 1889. Two sermon* on baptism are his only publications. — Sprague, Annals, ii, 589.
Brown, Matthew, D.D., LL.D., a Presbyterian minister, was born in Northumberland Co.. Pa., in 1776. He graduated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, in 1794, commenced the study of theology about 1796, and was licensed by the presbytery of Carlisle Oct. 3, 1799. After having for some time had the charge of the congregation of Mifflin and Lost Creek, he became in lso") pastor of the congregation of Washington, Pa., and principal of the Washington Academy, the latter being in 1806 merged in the Washington Col- lege. Mr. Brown was elected first president of the college, which situation he filled until Dec, 1816, still remaining pastor of his congregation. After leaving AVashmt^ton College, he declined the presidency of Centre College, Danville, Ky. ; yet in 1822 he accept- ed that of Jefferson College at Cannonsburg, which office he filled with distinguished success for twenty- three years. In 1823 he was made D.D. by the Col- lege of N. J., and subsequently LL.D. by Lafayette and Jefferson colleges. After a time he became also pastor of the congregation at Cannonsburg, and con- tinued as such until his health compelled him to tender his resignation of the presidency of the college in 1845 ; yet his labors in the pulpit did not wholly cease till near the close of life. He died at Pittsburg July 29, 1853. He published A Memoir of the Rev. Oba- diah Jennings, D.D. (1832) -.—Extract-! from Lectures by Dr. Chas. Nisbet, President of Dickinson < 'nil,,/, , with Remarks from other Writers (1840), with a number of occasional sermons and addresses. — Sprague, Annals, iv, 256.
Brown, Robert. See Brownists.
Brown, William Lawrence, D.D., an emi- nent Scotch divine, born in 1755, was educated at St Andrew's, Aberdeen, and at Utrecht. In 1778 he be- came minister of the English Church in Utrecht; in 1795 he removed to Scotland and became professor of divinity at Aberdeen, and afterward principal of Marischal College. He died in 1830. His writings include Sermons (Edinb. 1803, 8vo): — Comparison of Christianity with other Forms of Religion (Edinb. 1826, 2 vols. 8vo) : — Essay on the, Existence of a Supreme Creator (Edinb. 1816, 8vo), which obtained the Burnet prize of £1250.
Browne, Arthur, the only Episcopalian minister in New Hampshire till after the Revolution, was born in Drogheda, Ireland, in 1699, educated at Trinity Col- lege, Dublin, and emigrated as missionary to America in 1729, becoming rector of King's Chapel in Provi- dence, R. L, in the following year. In 1736 he re- moved to Portsmouth, N. II., where, he labored for :'>7 years. He died in 1773 much lamented. — Sprague, Annals, V, 76.
Browne, George, D.D., archbishop of Dublin, the first prelate who embraced the Reformation in Ire- land. He was originally a friar of the order of St. Augustine, took the degree of D.D. in 1584, and in 1535 was made archbishop of Dublin. When Henry the Eighth ordered the monasteries to be destroyed.
Archbishop Browne immediately ordered thai every vestige of superstitious relics, of which there were many in the two cathedrals of Dublin, should bo re- moved. He afterward caused the same to be done in th" other churches of Ins 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 that
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city ; -alien the archbishop delivered a judicious, learn- ed." and aide sermon against keeping the Bible in the Latin tongue and the worship of images. In October, 1551, the title of primate of all Ireland was conferred on Browne. On account of his zeal in the Reforma- tion, he was deprived of his see by Queen Mary in 1554. He died in the year 1556. — Jones, Christian Bioff. p. 71 ; Hook, Eccl. Biog. iii, 175.
Browne, Simon, a Dissenting minister of Eng- land, was born in 1680 at Shepton Mallet, Somerset- shire. He served Dissenting congregations of Ports- mouth and, afterward, of London until 1723, when grief for the loss of his wife and his son made him de- ranged on the subject of Christ's humanity, concern- ing which he maintained that the Supreme Being, though retaining the human shape and the faculty of speaking, "had all the while no more notion of what he said than a parrot." He gave up his charge, and refused to join in any act of worship. Yet while under this delusion he wrote vers- able works against Wool- ston {Remarks on Mr.Woolston's Fifth D'scourse on the Miracles of ovr Saviour, 1732), and against Tindal ( 1 1 fi race of the Religion of Nature and the Christian Rev- , lation, 1732), besides a Greek and a Latin Dictionary. Previously he had published several other works.