George Browne (provost) explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Reverend
George Browne
Order:16th
Office:Provost of Trinity College Dublin
Term Start:1 August 1695
Term End:5 February 1699
Predecessor:St George Ashe
Successor:Peter Browne
Birth Date:6 January 1649
Birth Place:Northumberland, England
Death Place:Dublin, Ireland
Alma Mater:Trinity College Dublin
(B.A., 1671; D.D., 1675)

George Browne, D.D. (6 January 1649 – 5 February 1699) was an English 17th-century academic who served as the 16th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1695 to 1699.

Brown was born in Northumberland in 1649. He entered Trinity College Dublin in 1667 and graduated B.A. in 1671. He became a Fellow in 1673.[1] He became professor of laws in 1886 and professor of divinity in 1693. Browne was Provost from 1695 to 1699.[2]

Notes and References

  1. "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860 George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir pp102/3: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  2. https://www.tcd.ie/provost/history/former-provosts/g_browne.php George Browne.