George Browne (provost)

George Browne, D.D. (6 January 1649 – 5 February 1699) was an English 17th-century academic who served as the 16th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1695 to 1699.

Brown was born in Northumberland in 1649. He entered Trinity College Dublin in 1667 and graduated B.A. in 1671. He became a Fellow in 1673. He became professor of laws in 1886 and professor of divinity in 1693. Browne was Provost from 1695 to 1699.