Mrs Harold Browne
(1819-1906)
29 July 1864

Volume 12, page 151, sitting number 15,752.

[Identified as ‘Mrs Harold Browne’ in the Silvy daybooks, this is possibly the wife of the Reverend Edward Harold Browne, usually known as Harold Browne, who was consecrated Bishop of Ely on 29 March 1864.]

Born in or about 1819, Elizabeth Carlyon was the fourth daughter of Dr Clement Carlyon of Truro in Cornwall. 

On 18 June 1840 at Wolcot St Swithin in Bath she married ‘the Rev. Edward Harold Browne, MA, Fellow and Tutor of Emanuel College, Cambridge, youngest son of the late Col. Robert Browne, of Morton House, Buckinghamshire’ (Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, 20 June 1840).

At the time of his marriage Harold Browne was a professor of divinity at Cambridge University. During his clerical career he was the incumbent of various parishes. On 29 March 1864 he became the Bishop of Ely. In December 1873 he was translated to the see of Winchester. Ill-health forced his retirement a year before his death. 

The Right Reverend Edward Harold Brown died on 18 December 1891 at Shales House near Bitterne in Hampshire. His estate was valued at £36,562. He was survived by four sons, a daughter and a widow. Of his sons, one was a barrister and three were clergymen (The Cornishman, 24 December 1891).

Mrs Elizabeth Browne died, aged 87, on 1 April 1906 at 15 Kingsgate Street, Winchester. She left an estate valued at £4381.