That prelate, taking a great liking to the boy, and observing in his little acolyte the signs of a vocation to the ecclesiastical state, sent him, in 1820, to Sedgeley Park Academy.

There he remained until June 1826, and in the following August was placed by Bishop Milner, as a clerical student, at St. Mary's College, Old Oscott, now known as Maryvale.

Some weeks before the declaration of the dogma of papal infallibility, on 18 July 1870, Brown was released from his attendance upon it on the score of ill-health, and received permission to return homewards.

[2] On 27 July 1876, the silver jubilee of his episcopate was celebrated in the Shrewsbury Cathedral, memorial gifts to the value of £1,600 being presented to him on the occasion.

His health breaking down three years afterwards he obtained the assistance of an auxiliary, Edmund Knight, who was consecrated on 25 July 1879.

Brown then went to live at St. Mary's Grange, a sequestered spot near Shrewsbury, then recently purchased by him as the site of his proposed seminary.

[2] He died in office at Grange Bank Farm, Shrewsbury, on 14 October 1881, aged 69 and his body taken to Wales where he was buried at Pantasaph Friary, Flintshire.