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, Charles's grandson T.H. Spurgeon was appointed Principal of the IBC in 1916.
A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin where he obtained a MA, he later qualified as a barrister.
In 1892 he founded the Irish Baptist Training Institute at 16 Harcourt Street in Dublin, with just five students, beside the Harcourt Street Baptist Church where he preached, which later became the Irish Baptist College, which is now based outside Lisburn.
He wrote a number of books including Irish Baptists on the Home Rule Bill published in 1893 by the Irish Unionist Alliance.
Brown died in Dublin on 24 April 1918, and is buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin.
See also
References
- 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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