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Thomas Edward Brown
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I lived from 1830-1897.
I was from England, and am in the English category.
Thomas was born on the 5th of May 1830, at Douglas, Isle of Man
His early education came partly from the parish schoolmaster of Braddan, but mainly from his father, the Rev. Robert Brown. At 15 went to King William's College and then in 1847 he won second prize for a poem.
He went to Christ Church, Oxford. He won a double first and was elected a fellow of Oriel in April 1854. The dean of his own college would not nominate him for fellowship at Christ Church because he had been a servitor there and no servitor had ever been made fellow! This humiliation was one he remembered throughout his life.
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Life as a fellow of Oriel did not appeal to him and after a few terms he returned to the isle of Man and King William's College as the colleges' vice principal..
In 1856, he was ordained by Wilberforce, the Bishop of Oxford, but did not do any parochial work till 1884.
In 1863 accepted the headmastership of the Crypt School at Gloucester and then the following year was appointed second master of Clifton College.
His poem “Betsy Lee” appeared in Macmillan’s Magazine (April and May 1873), and was published separately in the same year. It was included in Fo’c’s’le Yarns (1881), which reached a second edition in 1889. This volume included at least three other notable poems—” Tommy Big-eyes,” “Christmas Rose,” and “Captain Tom and Captain Hugh.” It was followed by The Doctor and oilier Poems (1887), The Manx Witch and other Poems (1889), and Old John and other Poems—a volume mainly lyrical (1893). Since his death all these and a few additional lyrics and fragments have been published in one volume by Messrs Macmillan under the title of The Collected Poems of T. E. Brown (1900). His familiar letters (edited in two volumes by an old friend, Mr S. T. Irwin, in 1900.)
Brown’s more important poems are narrative, and written in the Manx dialect, with a free use of pauses, and sometimes with daring irregularity of rhythm. A rugged tenderness is their most characteristic note; but the emotion, while almost equally explosive in mirth and in tears, remains an educated emotion, disciplined by a scholar’s sense of language. They breathe the fervour of an island patriotism (humorously aware of its limits) and of a simple natural piety. In his lyrics he is happiest- when yoking one or the other of these emotions to serve a philosophy of life, often audacious, but always genial.
( information sourcearalumun.com and encyclopedia.org )
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