About Francis Graham Brown
Lived 1891 – 1942 (aged 51). Francis Graham Brown was a British anglican priest.
George Francis Graham-Brown (27 January 1891 – 23 November 1942) was an Anglican bishop in the second quarter of the 20th century.
Life Graham-Brown was educated at Monkton Combe School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
After World War I service with the King's Own Scottish Borderers during which he was wounded in the head and eventually invalided out of the service, and three years as a History Master at his former school, he was ordained in 1922.
He was successively Chaplain, Vice-Principal then Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. In 1932 he was appointed the sixth Bishop in Jerusalem, a post he held for 10 years. He was consecrated a bishop on the Nativity of St John the Baptist (24 June) 1932, at St Paul's Cathedral, by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. He was also a Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.
Having become a Doctor of Divinity (DD), he died in post on 23 November 1942 in a car accident. His grave is preserved in Mount Zion Cemetery, Jerusalem.
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Who was Francis Graham Brown?
Bishop of Jerusalem; British Anglican bishop
When was Francis Graham Brown born?
Francis Graham Brown was born on 27 January 1891 in Lanzhou.
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Francis Graham Brown died on 23 November 1942.
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Francis Graham Brown was an anglican priest.
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Francis Graham Brown was British.
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