Reference code: GB-0298-UC/P29
Title: William Brown Papers
Dates of creation: [early 20th century]
Extent: 3 files
Held by: Ushaw College
Origination: William Henry Brown (1852-1934)
Language: English and Latin
William Henry Brown was born in 1852. He was educated at Ushaw, teaching as a minor professor before ordination in June 1881. He remained at the college as prefect of discipline in the Junior House. Following the resignation of Rev R. C. Laing in
1886, Brown was appointed to teach poetry. In this position he was required to prepare the school of Poetry for the London matriculation, teaching Greek, Latin, English and Chemistry. Brown helped to achieve impressive results in this role, most
notably between 1888-1892, when not a single failure was registered. In 1897, he became Prefect of Studies and, twelve years later, was appointed as vice-president of the college. As a consequence of the death of Mgr Corbishley, he succeeded to the
presidency after only a year, remaining in this post until his death in 1934.
Papers of Canon Brown relating to Ushaw, notes on Catholic history, and personal items.
This collection was originally part of the Ushaw Personal Papers series created by Fr Michael Sharratt in 1990.
Open for consultation.
Permission to make any published use of the photocopied material from the collection must be sought in advance from pg.library@durham.ac.uk and, where appropriate, from Lancashire Record Office (the copyright owner). The Library will assist where
possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material.
The letters and other papers follow the original arrangement of the collection which is broadly chronological. The exception to this arrangement is a handful of letters added to the end of the numbering sequence at a later date.
“Monsignor William Henry Canon Brown”,
Ushaw Magazine, Vol. XLIV (1934), p.173-198
UC/P29/1/1-153 [1869 x 1934]
Papers relating to Ushaw during Brown's time as a student and member of staff, including play scripts, lecture notes on poetry and other topics, drafts of poems, and sermons.
1 file
UC/P29/2/1-80 [1860s x 1934]
Papers, mostly rough jottings on Ushaw and Catholic history.
1 file
UC/P29/3/1-7 2 November 1879 - 3 January 1931
Correspondence:
7 letters
UC/P29/3/1 21 November 1879
Letter from J. H. Dodds to Dick [?William Brown]: an outbreak of fever at the College and the death of Frank Sanders, news of fellow priests, and news of seminarians at Ushaw
4f
UC/P29/3/1a 13 March 1886
Letter from William Brown to Dr Preston: commenting on an article by Dean Billington on rhetoric in the
Ushaw Magazine
3f
UC/P29/3/2 23 April 1923
Letter from [?], M.P. in the Candian Parliament to William Brown: his memories of his time as a lay student at Ushaw College, including plays, the sweet shop at Hill Top, games of cat and the construction of cat sticks, and other
contemporaries
Wanting final page?
10f
UC/P29/3/3 26 July 1923
Letter from William Brown to Canon [?]: the financial cost of the Salford diocese sending students to Ushaw College
1f
UC/P29/3/4 12 June 1927
Letter from William Brown to Canon [?]: protesting at the Salford diocese sending its students to Ushaw College
1f
UC/P29/3/5 27 November 1929
Letter from [?R.T.W.] to [?William Brown]: suggesting that he censors his old letters
2f
UC/P29/3/6 3 January 1931
Letter from Mgr M. Canoli (Vatican City) to [?William Brown]: remembering his visit to Ushaw, his gifts of photos and a prayer, and the possibility of publishing extracts of Merry del Val's papers in the
Ushaw Magazine
1f
UC/P29/3/7 22 November [1910 x 1934]
Letter from Pearl Sheldon to William Brown: enclosing a picture of Saint Dominic del Val
1f
UC/P29/4/1-5 [1890s x 1934]
Miscellaneous personal items:
1 file
UC/P29/4/1 21 February 1905
Language: Latin
Prothonotary Apostolic (Protonotarii apostolici ad instar participantium) certificate issued by Pope Pius XI to Brown.
1f
UC/P29/4/2-4 17 February 1932
Language: Latin
Petition by Joseph Thorman, bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, to the Sacred Congregation for the Discipline of the Sacraments, requesting a portable altar for Brown.
1f
UC/P29/4/5 [1890s x 1934]
Portrait photographs of Brown.
3 items
