Rev. James Francis Browne (1836 – 1 August 1902) was an
Anglican Archdeacon in
British India
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in the late 19th century.
Browne was the son of Lieut. James Francis Browne R.N. and Jane Elizabeth Bore. He was educated at the
London College of Divinity
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and
ordained
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in 1867. After
curacies
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in
Middleton Tyas
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History
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and
Bath he went as a
Chaplain to
Madras. He served at
Cannanore
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,
Secunderabad,
Black Town and
Bangalore
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. He was
Archdeacon of
Madras from 1884 to 1891. Returning to
England
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he was the
incumbent
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in
Flax Bourton
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...
from 1892 to 1894.
He married Elizabeth Anna Deshon in 1870. He died in August 1902 in Somerset.
References
19th-century Indian Anglican priests
Alumni of the London College of Divinity
Archdeacons of Madras
Date of birth missing
1902 deaths
1836 births
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