Hugh D. Brown
Hugh Dunlop Brown MA BL, was an author, pastor-teacher of Harcourt Street Baptist Church, was sympathetic to the Irish Unionist Alliance, President of the Irish Baptist Association in 1887 and theologian associated with Charles Spurgeon,[1] Charles's grandson T.H. Spurgeon was appointed Principal of the IBC in 1916.[citation needed]
A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin where he obtained a MA, he later qualified as a barrister.[citation needed]
In 1892 he founded the Irish Baptist Training Institute at 16 Harcourt Street in Dublin, with just five students,[2] beside the Harcourt Street Baptist Church where he preached,[3] which later became the Irish Baptist College, which is now based outside Lisburn.[4]
He wrote a number of books including Irish Baptists on the Home Rule Bill published in 1893 by the Irish Unionist Alliance.[5]
Brown died in Dublin on 24 April 1918, and is buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin.[citation needed]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Who we are Irish Baptist College.
- ^ 'The Baptist Heritage : Four Century of Baptist Witness' by H. Leon McBeth, B & H Publishing, 2010.
- ^ The History of the Harcourt Street Baptists Archived 17 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine by Pastor Louis E. Deens.
- ^ Brackney, William H. (16 September 2009). The A to Z of the Baptists. Scarecrow Press. p. 306. ISBN 9780810871588.
- ^ Amazon.co.uk
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