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G. F. (George Forrest) Browne
1833–1930
A Victorian churchman with a surprisingly wide range of interests, he combined a long career as an Anglican bishop with serious work as a historian and archaeologist. His writing brings together scholarship, travel, and a lifelong fascination with the early Christian past.
3 Audiobooks
Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
by G. F. (George Forrest) Browne
Alcuin of York : Lectures delivered in the cathedral church of Bristol in 1907 and 1908
by G. F. (George Forrest) Browne
The Christian Church in These Islands before the Coming of Augustine Three Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January 1894
by G. F. (George Forrest) Browne
About the author
Born in York in 1833, George Forrest Browne was educated at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and went on to become a prominent figure in the Church of England. He served as the first Anglican Bishop of Stepney before becoming Bishop of Bristol, a post he held from 1897 until his retirement.
Browne was also known for his historical and archaeological interests. Alongside his church career, he wrote on early Christianity, saints, and church history, and he was respected for bringing careful scholarship to subjects that connected religion with the physical remains of the past.
He lived a long life, dying in 1930, and left behind both ecclesiastical memoirs and historical works. For readers today, he stands out as an author whose books reflect the energy of a learned Victorian clergyman looking well beyond the pulpit.