Walter Raleigh Browne (1842 – 4 September 1884) was an English civil engineer and Christian writer.
[1] He worked as Secretary for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers but later resigned from this position.
He was an original council member of the Society for Psychical Research and took interest in metaphysics.
On 27 and 28 April 1876 he debated the atheist Charles Bradlaugh at Victoria Hall, Leeds on the topic of miracles.
He translated the second edition of Rudolf Clausius’ German physics textbook The Mechanical Theory of Heat in 1879.