Edward Harold Browne

Edward Harold Browne (1811 - 1891) was a Bishop of the Church of England.

The second son of Col. Robert Browne of Morton House, in Buckinghamshire, and of Sarah Dorothea Steward, he was educated at Eton and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. After securing his B.A. in 1832, he won the Crosse theological scholarship in 1833, the Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholarship in 1834, and the Norrisian prize in 1835. He graduated with his M.A. in 1836, was elected fellow of Emmanuel in 1837, and appointed senior tutor in 1838. In 1854 he was elected Norrisian Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. He took the B.D. in 1855 and the D.D. in 1864.

He was ordained deacon in 1837 and priest in the following year. In 1841 he accepted a curacy in Exeter, but in 1843 moved to Wales as Vice-Principal of St. David's College. In 1849, he took a rectorship in Cornwall, to which was attached a prebendal stall in Exeter Cathedral, which he exchanged in 1857 for a canonry in the same. On 29 March 1864 he was consecrated Bishop of Ely. In December 1873, he was translated to the see of Winchester.

In 1885, Browne set up the first diocesan organisation of the Mothers' Union, which had previously been a simple parish meeting chaired by Mary Sumner in Old Alresford. He resigned as bishop in 1890, and died on 18 December 1891.