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Browne, George
Browne, George (d. 1556), archbishop of Dublin 1536–54, a somewhat equivocal promoter of the early Reformation. An Oxford‐educated English Augustinian friar, he came to the notice of Thomas Cromwell as a supporter of royal supremacy. His appointment to the see of Dublin was followed by the passing of the Irish Reformation legislation in the parliament of 1537, and his chief role subsequently was to enforce these religious and jurisdictional changes. Faced with indifference and opposition from his clergy, and finding exhortation and ecclesiastical discipline ineffective, he sought to gain the support of the civil arm to impose the reforms. However, frustrated by political infighting within the Dublin administration, and further spancelled by the fall of his patron Cromwell in 1540, Browne in his later career came to terms with his clerical colleagues' innate conservatism: he put aside his wife; showed little enthusiasm for Edwardian Protestantism; and, on being deprived of his see in 1554 after the return to Catholicism under Mary, was pardoned and made a prebendary of St Patrick's cathedral.
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"Browne, George." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Browne, George." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-BrowneGeorge.html "Browne, George." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-BrowneGeorge.html |
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Browne, George
Browne, George (1811–85). Belfast-born architect who worked in Canada from 1830. His best-known works are the Church of St George, Kingston, Ontario (1859), a variant on Gibbs's St Martin-in-the-Fields, and the City Hall and Market Building, also in Kingston (1842–4), in a robust mixture of Neo-Classicism and late-Georgian styles that looks back, perhaps, to the Baroque of Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh, although Gandon's work in Dublin is called to mind.
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JAMES STEVENS CURL. "Browne, George." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JAMES STEVENS CURL. "Browne, George." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O1-BrowneGeorge.html JAMES STEVENS CURL. "Browne, George." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2000. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O1-BrowneGeorge.html |
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Browne, George
Browne, George (d. c.1556), Abp. of Dublin. An English Augustinian friar, as Provincial of his Order he was charged by Henry VIII in 1534 with part in a visitation of the friars which included administering the Oath of Supremacy. In 1536 he was appointed Abp. of Dublin. He took part in the suppression of the Irish monasteries, and under Edward VI he became the leader of the Irish clergy who accepted the new religion. In 1554, under Mary, he was deprived of his see, presumbly because he was married.
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Browne, George." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Browne, George." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-BrowneGeorge.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Browne, George." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-BrowneGeorge.html |
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