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Francis Brown (other)
Francis Brown may refer to: *Francis Brown (theologian) (1849–1916), American Semitic scholar * Francis Brown (college president) (1784–1820), president of Dartmouth College * Francis Brown (mathematician) (1997–), French-British mathematician * Francis Ernest Brown (1869–1939), headmaster for Geelong Church of England Grammar School * Francis David Millet Brown (1837–1895), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross *Francis Focer Brown (1891–1971), Midwestern American Impressionist painter, Professor and Director of the Muncie Art Museum *Francis Graham Brown (1891–1942), Anglican bishop * F. Taylor Brown (1925–2011), U.S. Navy admiral * Francis Brown (priest) (1670–1724), Canon of Windsor * Francis Shunk Brown (1858–1940), Pennsylvania lawyer and Attorney General *Francis Harold Brown Francis Harold Brown (October 24, 1943 – September 30, 2017) was an American geologist and geochemist who mapped the sedimentary sequence and geology of most of the Turkana Basin in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Brown (theologian)
The Rev. Francis Brown (December 26, 1849 – 1916) American Semitic scholar, was born in Hanover, New Hampshire. He was the son of Samuel Gilman Brown (1813–1885), president of Hamilton College from 1867 to 1881, and the grandson of Francis Brown, whose removal from the presidency of Dartmouth College and later restoration were incidental to the famous Dartmouth College case. The younger Francis graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover in 1866, from Dartmouth in 1870 and from the Union Theological Seminary in 1877, and then studied in Berlin. In 1879 he became instructor in biblical philology at the Union Theological Seminary, in 1881 an associate professor of the same subject, and in 1890 Davenport Professor of Hebrew and the cognate Languages. Brown's published works won him an honorary doctorate of Divinity from the University of Glasgow (1901), and a D.Litt. from the University of Oxford, as well as honorary doctorates from Dartmouth and Yale. The works are, with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Brown (college President)
Francis Brown (January 11, 1784 – July 27, 1820) was an American Congregational minister who served as the 3rd president of Dartmouth College. He graduated from the college in 1805 and from 1806–1809 held a tutorship there. He also served as a pastor of the Meetinghouse under the Ledge in North Yarmouth, Massachusetts (now Yarmouth, Maine). Brown was removed from his presidency at the college as part of the actions that resulted in the Dartmouth College case, but was reinstated following the 1819 decision in favor of the college. Biography Francis Brown was born in Chester, New Hampshire. A pastor from North Yarmouth, Maine, he presided over Dartmouth College during the famous Supreme Court hearing of ''Trustees of Dartmouth College v. William H. Woodward'' or, as it is more commonly called, the Dartmouth College Case. The contest was a pivotal one for Dartmouth and for the newly independent nation. It tested the contract clause of the Constitution and arose from an 1816 co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Brown (mathematician)
Francis Brown is a Franco-British mathematician who works on Arithmetic geometry and Quantum Field Theory. Career Brown studied at the University of Cambridge and the École normale supérieure (Paris) and University of Bordeaux, with Pierre Cartier, graduating in 2006 with a Ph.D. He then spent time at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and Mittag-Leffler Institute. In 2007 he moved to Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu – Paris Rive Gauche where he won a European Research Council starter grant in 2010. In 2012, he moved to the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and was awarded a CNRS Bronze Medal and Élie Cartan Prize for his proof of two conjectures related to multiple zeta functions. He had a Von Neumann Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study from 2014 to 2015 and is currently a senior research fellow at All Souls College, at the University of Oxford. Brown's work is on the intersection of algebraic geometry and number theory Number theory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Ernest Brown
Francis Ernest Brown (1869-1939) was headmaster of Geelong Church of England Grammar School, Victoria, Australia from 1912 until his retirement in 1929. Biography Brown was born on 12 March 1869 in Bristol. He attended Bristol Grammar School where he was head boy, followed by Hertford College, Oxford. He graduated in 1892 and became senior mathematics master at Hulme Grammar School in Manchester. He was then appointed senior mathematics master at King Edward VII School, Sheffield in 1905; in 1908 he succeeded H J Chaytor as second master until 1911. In 1912 he took up the headmastership of Geelong Church of England Grammar school, Victoria. He was ordained in 1896; on his return to England in 1929 he was rector of Preston Bagot Preston Bagot is a village and civil parish in the Stratford district of Warwickshire, England, about west of the county town of Warwick. According to the 2001 census the population was 147, reducing to 127 at the 2011 census. History Pre .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis David Millet Brown
Colonel Francis David Millet Brown VC (7 August 1837 – 21 November 1895) was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Details Brown was born on 7 August 1837 in Bhagalpur, India, the son of George Francis Brown of the Bengal Civil Service. He was educated at Grosvenor College, Bath, and from 1852 to 1854 by a private tutor, Brisco Morland Gane, late curate of Honiton. He was 20 years old, and a lieutenant in the 1st European Bengal Fusiliers (later The Royal Munster Fusiliers) during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed, on 16 November 1857 at Narnoul, India, for which Brown was awarded the Victoria Cross:''For great gallantry at Narnoul, on the 16th November, 1857, in having, at the imminent risk of his own life, rushed to the assistance of a wounded soldier of the 1st European Bengal Fusiliers, whom he carried off, under a very ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Focer Brown
Francis Focer Brown (January 19, 1891 – April 14, 1971) was an American Impressionist painter, as well as professor and head of the Fine Arts Department at Ball State Teachers College (present-day Ball State University) in Muncie, Indiana from 1925 until his retirement as Professor Emeritus in 1957, and was director of the Ball State Art Gallery until 1946. He exhibited his work at the Hoosier Salon shows between 1922 and 1964, winning several awards for his oils, pastels, and watercolors between 1925 and 1945. He also won prizes for works he exhibited at the John Herron Art Institute and the Richmond Art Museum in 1922. In addition, he exhibited his work at the Herron School of Art Museum, Ball State University, Indiana Art Club shows, and the Indiana State Fair, as well as exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1922 and 1923, and Cincinnati Museum of Art between 1922 and 1925. Brown studied with Hoosier Group painter J. Ottis Adams while still a high s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Graham Brown
George Francis Graham-Brown (27 January 1891 – 23 November 1942) was an Anglican bishop in the second quarter of the 20th century. Life Graham-Brown was educated at Monkton Combe School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. After World War I service with the King's Own Scottish Borderers during which he was wounded in the head and eventually invalided out of the service, and three years as a History Master at his former school, he was ordained in 1922. He was successively Chaplain, Vice-Principal then Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. In 1932 he was appointed the sixth Bishop in Jerusalem, a post he held for 10 years. He was consecrated a bishop on the Nativity of St John the Baptist (24 June) 1932, at St Paul's Cathedral, by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. He was also a Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. Having become a Doctor of Divinity A Doctor of Divinity (D.D. or DDiv; la, Doctor Divinitatis) is the holder of an advanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Brown (priest)
Francis Brown DD (1670 - 7 September 1724) was a Canon of Windsor from 1713 to 1724.''Fasti Wyndesorienses'', May 1950. S. L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle Career He was educated at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge and graduated BA in 1693. He then moved to King's College, Cambridge and graduated MA in 1696 and DD in 1712. He was appointed: *Chaplain at King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ... 1693 - 1694 *Vicar of Shalford 1694 He was appointed to the twelfth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1713, and held the stall until 1724. Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Francis 1670 births 1724 deaths Canons of Windsor Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Alumni of King' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Shunk Brown
Francis Shunk Brown (June 9, 1858 – May 6, 1940) was an American lawyer from Pennsylvania who served one term as Pennsylvania Attorney General from 1915 to 1919 and ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary for Governor in 1930. Ancestry Brown's father was Charles Brown, who served two terms in the U.S. Congress as a Pennsylvania representative before Brown was born. Brown's mother was Elizabeth Shunk. Her father was former state governor Francis R. Shunk and her maternal grandfather was former state governor William Findlay. Early life and education The family moved to Delaware when Brown was still very young. Brown attended schools in Philadelphia and Delaware. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1879. He was admitted to the bar immediately. Brown was a member of the Five O'Clock Club of Philadelphia. Career His law practice clients included many Pennsylvania politicians Israel Wilson Durham, Boies Penrose, and the William Scott Vare. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Harold Brown
Francis Harold Brown (October 24, 1943 – September 30, 2017) was an American geologist and geochemist who mapped the sedimentary sequence and geology of most of the Turkana Basin in Kenya, east Africa. Brown introduced single-crystal argon-argon and potassium-argon dating into the Turkana Basin, resolving disputes over the age of '' Kenyanthropus platyops'' and other fossils. Early life Brown was born in Willits, California, to Vivien Clarice Jameson Brown and carpenter and viticulturist Francis Edward Brown. As an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, he studied chemistry, Latin and linguistics, rowed, and spent one obligatory year in the ROTC. Brown ultimately chose to pursue studies in geology and acquired his BA in 1965. He opposed the Vietnam war but reported to his draft board when he realized he had failed to register. Brown was not drafted. After receiving his PhD from Berkeley, he took a faculty position at the University of Utah in the Geology D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Clifton Brown
Vice-Admiral Francis Clifton Brown C.B., C.M.G., (10 July 1874 – 6 September 1963) was an officer of the Royal Navy. Early life Brown was born 10 July 1874 in Lower Beeding in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. He was the son of James Clifton Brown and Amelia Rowe and during his childhood the family lived in Holmbush House. He was educated at Cheam School. Navy career Brown trained at the Britannia Royal Naval College and was appointed to HMS Dreadnought in 1890. On 23 April 1895 he was promoted to Sub-lieutenant and then 14 October 1894 to Lieutenant. In April 1900 he was posted as gunnery lieutenant on the cruiser HMS ''Argonaut'', commissioned for service on the China station. Four years later on 31 December 1904, he was promoted to the rank of Commander. In January 1910, he was appointed to command the 2nd class protected cruiser HMS Thetis. On 1 July 1912, he was promoted to the Captain. During World War I Brown commanded HMS Skirmisher and HMS Edgar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Browne (other)
Francis Browne (1880–1960), was an Irish photographer and Jesuit priest. Francis or Frank Browne may also refer to: * Francis Browne (died 1541), Member of Parliament (MP) for Stamford * Francis Browne (MP for Bodmin) (fl. 1560s), MP for Bodmin *Francis Browne, 3rd Viscount Montagu (1610–1682) *Francis Browne, 4th Viscount Montagu (1638–1708), English peer *Francis Browne, 4th Baron Kilmaine (1843–1907), Anglo-Irish politician and landowner. *Francis Fisher Browne (1843–1913), American editor, poet, and critic *Francis Aubrey Browne (1878–1953), English-born accountant and political figure in British Columbia *Frank Browne (journalist) (1915–1981), Australian journalist * Francis Browne (cricketer) (1899–1970), English cricketer, schoolteacher and clergyman *Francis James Browne (1879–1963), professor of obstetrics and gynaecology * Francis Browne (priest, died 1797), Anglican priest in Ireland * Frank Styant Browne (1854–1938), Australian pharmacist, artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
