Brown, Peter (1)

an. Irishman, was bishop of Cork and Ross, to which sees he was promoted in 1709, and died August 25, 1735. He left many works, among them A Reply to the Infidel Toland (Dublin, 1697, 8vo): — On the Custom of Drinking to the Memory of the Dead, in reply to a divine who justified the practice (ibid. 1715, 12mo): — On the Evil qf Drinking Healths (1716, 1722). He also wrote remarks on a work of the bishop of Raphoe, entitled A Clear and Easy Method, by means of which a man of moderate capacity may attain to a satisfactory knowledge of the things which belong to his eternal salvation (ibid. 1716). See Ware, Irish Bishops (ed. Harris). Landon, Eccles. Dict. s.v.