Walter Browne (priest)

Walter Marshall Browne (16 September 1885 - 6 February 1959) was Archdeacon of Rochester from 1932 to 1951.

Life

He was born 16 September 1885, the son of Thomas Gillespie Chapman Browne, actuary, and Ann Mary Ballantyne.

He was educated at Tonbridge School, and admitted pensioner of Christ's College, Cambridge on 15 January 1904.^[1] He was ordained a deacon in 1909 and a priest in Southwell Minster in 1910.

He married Marjorie Vickers on 23 April 1914 at St. Ann's Church, Nottingham.^[2]

Appointments

He was appointed:

Curate of St. Ann's Church, Nottingham 1909 - 1912
Chaplain to the Bishop of Hereford 1912 - 1916
Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Attenborough 1916 - 1923
Vicar of Erith 1923 - 1932
Archdeacon of Rochester 1932^[3] - 1951

Church of England titles
Preceded by Donald Tait	Archdeacon of Rochester 1932-1951	Succeeded by Lawrence Harland

Archdeacons of Rochester

High Medieval	Ansketil Hervey/Herwis Robert Pullen Paris William son of Peter William de Sancto Martino John de Sancto Dionysio Roger de Weseham

Late Medieval	Pierre Cardinal Desprès William de le Dene William Reed William Wyvel of Wenlock Roger William de Navesby Roger de Denford Thomas Halle William Hunden William Purcell Richard Cordon/Brouns John Lowe Roger Rotherham Henry Sharp Henry Edyall Nicholas Metcalfe Maurice Griffith

Early modern	John Kennall John Bridgewater John Calverley Ralph Pickover Thomas Staller Thomas Sanderson Richard Tillesley Elizeus Burgess John Lee Thomas Plume Thomas Sprat the Hon Henry Bridges William Bradford John Denne John Law Walker King

Late modern	suppressed Anthony Grant, Archdeacon of St Albans Samuel Cheetham Tetley Rowe Donald Tait Walter Browne Lawrence Harland David Stewart-Smith Derek Palmer Michael Turnbull Norman Warren Peter Lock Simon Burton-Jones

Notes

↑ Biographical Register of Christ’s College, Cambridge. John Peile. Cambridge University Press. 2014. p.872
↑ "Former Nottingham Curate Married". Nottingham Evening Post (Nottingham). 23 April 1914. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
↑ "Fashionable and Personable". Kent & Sussex Courier (Kent). 25 November 1932. Retrieved 22 June 2015.

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