Francis Ernest Brown (1869-1939) was headmaster of

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, Victoria, Australia from 1912 until his retirement in 1929.

Biography

Brown was born on 12 March 1869 in

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. He attended Bristol Grammar School where he was head boy, followed by

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. He graduated in 1892 and became senior mathematics master at Hulme Grammar School in

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. He was then appointed senior mathematics master at King Edward VII School, Sheffield in 1905; in 1908 he succeeded

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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

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, Warwickshire, until 1934. He died in Ampney St Peter, Gloucestershire, on 1 June 1939, leaving a wife and five children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Francis Ernest 1869 births 1939 deaths People educated at Bristol Grammar School Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford Australian headmasters British expatriates in Australia