D. D. LL.D Brownell Thomas Clmreh, an American clergyman, born at Westport, Mass., Oct. 19, 1779, died in Hartford, Conn., Jan. 13, 1865. He was the son of a farmer, and was educated at Bristol academy, Taunton, at Rhode Island college (now Brown university), and at Union college, where he graduated in 1804. The next year he became tutor in Union college, in 1807 professor of belles-lettres and moral philosophy, and in 1809 was chosen the first professor of chemistry and mineralogy. The following year was spent in travelling through Great Britain and Ireland, and in gathering materials and apparatus for the department under his charge. In 1813 he began to turn-his attention to preparation for the ministry, and having become an Episcopalian was ordained by Bishop Hobart, in Trinity church, New York, April 11, 1816. In connection with his professional duties he gave himself to the work of a missionary in Schenectady and its vicinity. In the summer of 1818 he became an assistant minister in Trinity church, New York. He was consecrated bishop of Connecticut Oct. 27, 1819, and removed at once to Jiis new field of labor.

Washington (now Trinity) college, at Hartford, Conn., took its rise under his auspices in 1824; he was its first president, resigning in 1831. He became presiding bishop in 1852, upon the death of Bishop Chase of Illinois. He was author of " The Family Prayer Book," which contains a commentary, historical, explanatory, doctrinal, and practical, on the liturgy of the Episcopal church. In 1839-'40 he prepared the "Religion of the Heart and Life " (5 vols. 12mo), a compilation from the best writers on experimental and practical piety, with introductions, etc.