Born on 12 July 1914, William Brown was educated at
Bedford School and at
Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was a Scholar and gained a first class degree in
Modern Languages. He taught at
Wellington College, Berkshire, between 1936 and 1947, was
Headmaster of
King's Ely, between 1947 and 1955, and
Head Master of
Bedford School, between 1955 and 1975. He was ordained in 1976 and became Parish Priest in the parishes of
Field Dalling and
Saxlingham in
Norfolk, between 1977 and 1984, and
Rural Dean of
Holt, Norfolk, between 1984 and 1988. Described by
The Times as "a first-class headmaster of two schools", Revd William Brown died on 14 December 2005. ==References==