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

Life

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

Browne was educated at Tonbridge School, and admitted pensioner of Christ's College, Cambridge on 15 January 1904.Biographical Register of Christ’s College, Cambridge. John Peile. Cambridge University Press. 2014. p.872 He was ordained a deacon in 1909 and a priest in Southwell Minster in 1910.

Browne married Marjorie Vickers on 23 April 1914 at St. Ann's Church, Nottingham.

Appointments

Browne 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 - 1951

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