William Robert Brownlow (4 July 1830 – 9 November 1901) was an English prelate of the Catholic Church.
[1] Born in Winslow, Buckinghamshire on 4 July 1830, Brownow was the son of Reverend William Brownlow, Rector of Wilmslow, Cheshire.
He subsequently served as curate at St Bartholomew´s, Moor Lane, at Tetbury, Gloucestershire, and at St. John´s, Torquay, before being received into the Roman Catholic Church on 1 November 1863.
[1][3] Back in the United Kingdom, Brownlow was appointed missioner at St Mary´s church, Torquay, in 1867, and Canon of Plymouth in 1878.
[1] Brownlow was co-editor of the Roma Sotteranea; or an Account of the Roman Catacombs alongside James Spencer Northcote and was also the author of various papers on slavery and serfdom in Europe, and on Christian antiquities.