... and yet the fool
Contends that God is not--
Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool?
        (My Garden, 6-8)

1. I bended unto me a Bough
2. Ibant Obscuræ
3. My Garden
4. Opifex
5. Risus Dei

Notes on Life and Works

• Seccombe, Thomas. “Brown, Thomas Edward (1830-1897).” Rev. Sayoni Basu. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.

Biographical information

Given name: Thomas Edward
Family name: Brown
Birth date: 5 May 1830
Death date: 29 October 1897
Nationality: Manx
Family relations
          father: Robert Brown
          mother: Dorothy Brown
          wife: Amelia Brown (from 1857)
          brother: Hugh Stowell Brown
Languages
          Latin
          Greek
Education
          King William's College, Island of Man
          Christ Church, Oxford to 17 October 1849
          Oriel College, Oxford (M.A.): 1854 to 1856
Religion: Baptist
Honour: Fellowship, Oriel College, Oxford: 1854
Literary period: Victorian
Occupations
          Schoolmaster: 1856
          Headmaster: 1861
          Curate: 1884 to 1893
Residences
          Bristol
          Kirk Braddan, Isle of Man: 1830 to 1849
          Gloucester: 1861 to 1864
          Clifton: 1864
          Ramsey: 1893
Cause of death: Cerebral haemmorhage
Buried at: Redland Green, Bristol
First RPO edition: 1996-2000