Denis Browne (priest)
Denis Browne (1796–1864)[1] was an Irish Dean in the middle of the 19th century.[2]
Browne was born in County Mayo and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[3] He was for many years the incumbent at Enniscorthy. He was Dean of Emly from 1850 until his death.[4] He was a close friend of John Gregg, Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross from 1862 to 1878.[5] His grandson was the man who buried the poet Rupert Brooke.[6]
References
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- ^ "A New History of Ireland" Moody, T.W; Martin, F.X; Byrne, F.J; Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
- ^ 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 p102: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
- ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 400–401. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- ^ "Memorials of the life of John Gregg, D.D" Gregg, R.S. p35: Dublin; George Herbert; 1879
- ^ Leamington Courier
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