Mount Brown (philatelist)

Mount Brown (1837-19 September 1919)[1] was an early British philatelist and the compiler of only the second published stamp catalogue in the English language.

[2] Brown largely compiled his catalogue in the Rectory of All Hallows Staining, and he believed that the church there was the one mentioned by Charles Dickens in Dombey & Son.

Mount Brown had a collection of about 400 stamps but was able to list 1200 different types in his first catalogue with the help of a group of like-minded collectors who met on Saturday afternoons to pool their knowledge.

These included Dr. Charles W. Viner, Henry Haslett, Frederick Philbrick, William Hughes-Hughes, Sir Daniel Cooper and the Rev.

He chose to give up philately but retained an interest, visiting the Junior Philatelic Society's exhibition in 1908 where he met Fred Melville.

Mount Brown in a signed photograph probably taken before 1900.
An old engraving of All Hallows Staining and Rectory where Mount Brown and his collaborators used to meet.