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]}

• Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland
• Irish Baptist Association
• Irish Baptist College