See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

THOMAS See also:

• EDWARD

EDWARD See also:

• BROWN
• BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
• BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
• BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
• BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
• BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
• BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
• BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
• BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
• BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
• BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
• BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
• BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
• BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
• BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
• BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
• BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
• BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
• BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
• BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
• BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
• THOMAS EDWARD BROWN (1830-1897)
• BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)

BROWN (1830-1897)  , See also:

• BRITISH

British poet, See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar and divine, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 5th of May 183o, at See also:

• DOUGLAS
• DOUGLAS, GAVIN (1474?-1522)
• DOUGLAS, JOHN (1721—1807.)
• DOUGLAS, SIR CHARLES
• DOUGLAS, SIR HOWARD
• DOUGLAS, STEPHEN ARNOLD (18,3–1861)

Douglas, Isle of See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

Man . His See also:

• FATHER

father, the Rev . See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• BROWN
• BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
• BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
• BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
• BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
• BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
• BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
• BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
• BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
• BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
• BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
• BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
• BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
• BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
• BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
• BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
• BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
• BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
• BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
• BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
• BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
• BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
• BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)

Brown, held the living of St See also:

• MATTHEW, GOSPEL OF ST
• MATTHEW, ST (MaOOaior or MarOaIos, probably a shortened form of the Hebrew equivalent to Theodorus)
• MATTHEW, TOBIAS

Matthew's—a homely See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church in a poor See also:

• DISTRICT

district . His See also:

• MOTHER

mother came of Scottish parentage, though born in the See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island . See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas, the See also:

• SIXTH

sixth of ten See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children, was but two years old when the See also:

• FAMILY

family removed to See also:

• KIRK, SIR JOHN (1832- )

Kirk Braddan vicarage, a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short distance from Douglas, where his father (a scholar of no university, but so fastidious about See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition that he would have some sentences of an See also:

• ENGLISH

English classic read to him before answering an invitation) took See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share with the See also:

• PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish schoolmaster in tutoring the See also:

• CLEVER

clever boy until, at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of fifteen, he was entered at See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William's See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College . Here his abilities soon declared them-selves, and hence he proceeded to See also:

• CHRIST (Gr. X pLQTOS, Anointed)
• CHRIST, WILHELM VON (1831-1906)

Christ Church, See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford, where his position (as a servitor) cost him much humiliation, which he remembered to the end of his See also:

• LIFE

life . He won a See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double first, however, and was elected a See also:

• FELLOW

fellow of See also:

• ORIEL
• ORIEL, JOHN FOSTER, BARON (1740-1828)

Oriel in See also:

• APRIL

April 1854, See also:

• DEAN (Lat. decanus, derived from the Gr. 8eaa, ten)
• DEAN, FOREST OF

Dean See also:

• GAISFORD, THOMAS (1779-1855)

Gaisford having refused to promote him to a See also:

• SENIOR, NASSAU WILLIAM (1790-1864)

senior studentship of his own college, on the ground that no servitor had ever before attained to that See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour . Although at that See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time an Oriel fellow-See also:

• SHIP

ship conferred a deserved distinction, Brown never took kindly to the life, but, after a few terms of private pupils, returned to the Isle of Man as See also:

• VICE

vice-See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal of his old school . He had been ordained See also:

• DEACON (Gr. S&& ovos, minister, servant)

deacon, but did not proceed to See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest's orders for many years . In 1857 he married his See also:

• COUSIN (Fr. cousin, Ital. cugino, Late Lat. cosinus, perhaps a popular and familiar abbreviation of consobrinus, which has the same sense in classical Latin)
• COUSIN, JEAN (1500-1590)
• COUSIN, VICTOR (1792–1867)

cousin, See also:

• MISS

Miss See also:

• STOWELL, WILLIAM SCOTT, BARON (1745-1836)

Stowell, daughter of Dr Stowell of See also:

• RAMSEY
• RAMSEY, SIR ANDREW CROMBIE (1814—1891)

Ramsey, and soon afterwards See also:

• LEFT

left the island once more to become headmaster of the See also:

• CRYPT (Lat. crypta, from the Gr. Kp&arrew, to hide)

Crypt school, See also:

• GLOUCESTER
• GLOUCESTER (abbreviated as pronounced Glo'ster)
• GLOUCESTER, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• GLOUCESTER, GILBERT DE CLARE, EARL OF (1243-1295)
• GLOUCESTER, RICHARD DE CLARE, EARL OF (1222-1262)
• GLOUCESTER, ROBERT, EARL OF (d. 1147)
• GLOUCESTER, THOMAS OF WOODSTOCK, DUKE

Gloucester —a position which in no See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long time he found intolerable . From Gloucester he was summoned by the Rev . See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• PERCIVAL, JAMES GATES

Percival (after-wards See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop of See also:

• HEREFORD

Hereford), who had recently been appointed to the struggling See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of See also:

• CLIFTON

Clifton College, which he soon raised to be one of the See also:

• GREAT

great public See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools .

Percival wanted a See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master for the See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side, and made an See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment to meet Brown at Oxford; " and there," he writes, " as See also:

• CHANCE (through the O. Fr. cheance, from the Late Lat. cadentia, things happening, from cadere, to fall out, happen; cf. " case ")

chance would have it, I met him See also:

• STANDING

standing at the corner of St See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

Mary's Entry, in a somewhat Johnsonian attitude, four-square, his hands deep in his pockets to keep himself still, and looking decidedly volcanic . We very soon came to terms, and I left him there under promise to come to Clifton as my colleague at the beginning of the following See also:

• TERM

term." At Clifton Brown remained from See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1863 to See also:

• JULY

July 1892, when he retired—to the great regret of boys and masters alike, who had long since come to regard " T.E.B.'s " See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius, and even his eccentricities, with a See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar See also:

• PRIDE, THOMAS (d. 1658)

pride—to spend the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of his days upon the island he had worshipped from childhood and often celebrated in See also:

• SONG

song . His poem " Betsy See also:

• LEE
• LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
• LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
• LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
• LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
• LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
• LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
• LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
• LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
• LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
• LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
• LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
• LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
• LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)

Lee " appeared in See also:

• MACMILLAN

Macmillan's See also:

• MAGAZINE

Magazine (April and May 1873), and was published separately in the same See also:

• YEAR

year . It was included in Fo'c's'le Yarns (1881), which reached a second edition in 1889 . This See also:

• VOLUME

volume included at least three other notable poems—" Tommy Big-eyes," " See also:

• CHRISTMAS (i.e. the Mass of Christ)

Christmas See also:

• ROSE
• ROSE (Rosa)
• ROSE, GEORGE (1744-1818)
• ROSE, HUGH JAMES (1795—1838)
• ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843)

Rose," and " See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

Captain Tom and Captain See also:

• HUGH
• HUGH, ST

Hugh." It was followed by The See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

Doctor and other Poems (1887), The See also:

• MANX

Manx See also:

• WITCH

Witch and other Poems (1889), and Old John and other Poems—a volume mainly lyrical (1893) . Since his See also:

• DEATH

death all these and a few additional lyrics and fragments have been published in one volume by Messrs Macmillan under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of The Collected Poems of T . E . Brown (1900) . His See also:

• FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

familiar letters (edited in two volumes by an old friend, Mr S . T . Irwin, in 190o) See also:

• BEAR
• BEAR, BLACK
• BEAR, BROWN
• BEAR, GRIZZLY
• BEAR, ISABELLINE
• BEAR, WHITE

bear See also:

• WITNESS
• WITNESS (from O. Eng. witan, to know)

witness to the zest .he carried back to his native See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, although his thoughts often reverted to Clifton . In See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1897 he returned to the school on a visit .

He was the See also:

• GUEST (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Gast, and Swed. gust; cognate with Lat. hostis, originally a stranger, hence enemy; cf. " host " )
• GUEST, EDWIN (1800–188o)

guest of one of the See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house-masters, and on See also:

• FRIDAY (A.S. frige-dreg, fr. frige, gen. of frigu, love, or the goddess of love—the Norse Frigg,—the dreg, day; cf. Icelandic frjddagr, O.H. Ger. friatag, frigatag, mod. Ger. Freitag)

Friday evening, 29th October, he gave an address to the boys of the house . He had spoken for some minutes with his usual vivacity, when his See also:

• VOICE (Fr. voix, from Lat. vox)

voice See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew thick and he was seen to stagger . He died in less than two See also:

• HOURS, CANONICAL

hours . Brown's more important poems are narrative, and written in the Manx See also:

• DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse)

dialect, with a See also:

• FREE

free use of pauses, and sometimes with daring irregularity of See also:

• RHYTHM (Greek pvBµds, from bap, to flow)

rhythm . A rugged tenderness is their most characteristic See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note; but the emotion, while almost equally explosive in mirth and in tears, remains an educated emotion, disciplined by a scholar's sense of See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language . They breathe the fervour of an island patriotism (humorously aware of its limits) and of a See also:

• SIMPLE

simple natural piety . In his lyrics he is happiest when yoking one or the other of these emotions to serve a See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy of life, often audacious, but always genial . (A . T .